[openib-general] Re: RDMA Generic Connection Management

[Roland Dreier]

    Steve> I thought all ULPs needed to register as an IB client
    Steve> regardless?

Right now they do, because there's no other way to get a struct
ib_device pointer.  If we add a new API that returns a struct
ib_device pointer, then inevitably consumers will use it instead of
the current client API, and then hotplug will be hopelessly broken.

 - R.