[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: OFED 1.2.c-9 is available

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: OFED 1.2.c-9 is available
> 
>  > Why under drivers/net rather than drivers/infiniband like all the
>  > other drivers ? Does this really need special casing (in libibumad) ?
> 
> Tziporet is incorrect.  There's nothing from the mlx4_core driver
> either, and when it is implemented, it should work exactly the same as
> all other drivers.

At some point you suggested sticking this stuff under the pci device and
adding softlinks under drivers/infiniband, so that
if there's an ethernet device on top of the core these can be shared.

Not sure how to do this though, and no idea why would
just adding the attributes in both places be any worse, either.

Comments?

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