[openib-general] [RFC] ib_mad

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Wed Sep 22 21:34:47 PDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:37, Sean Hefty wrote:
> I'll start submitting comments in the form of patches.  
> I'll try to keep each patch as small 
> and contained as possible.  

OK. Thanks.

> This first one is fairly easy.  
> I didn't see where struct ib_mad_buf was used.  

It's needed in the PCI mapping/unmapping. In i386, PPC, and some
other architectures, the mapping is a nop so it might appear unused.
I don't think the void *buf pointer is needed.

> If it's needed, can it be merged directly into ib_mad_private_header?

Sure. I will post a patch for this.

-- Hal





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