[openib-general] RDMA Generic Connection Management

[Sean Hefty]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Sean> I should also point out that the kernel CM returns a device
>     Sean> pointer when reporting REQ and SIDR_REQ events, so it has
>     Sean> similar issues supporting hotplug.
> 
> Hmm, good point.  Perhaps we should make IB CM listens be per-device?
> Then the consumer is in control over which devices it might get called
> back on, and can clean up listens on device removal.

This seems like an easy way to fix this for the CM.  I'll need to think 
about it some more, but unless there are objections, I will start work 
on this change.

As for the other possibilities, I'm not wild about them either.

- Sean