[ewg] [PATCHv8 04/11] ib_core: IBoE CMA device binding

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed May 12 13:03:42 PDT 2010


 >  int ib_init_ah_from_path(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num,
 > -			 struct ib_sa_path_rec *rec, struct ib_ah_attr *ah_attr)
 > +			 struct ib_sa_path_rec *rec, struct ib_ah_attr *ah_attr,
 > +			 int force_grh)

Rather than this change in API, could we just have this function look at
the link layer, and if it's ethernet, then always set the GRH flag?
Seems simpler than requiring the upper layers to do this and then pass
the result in?
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