[openib-general] Re: ib_device_cap_flags

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: ib_device_cap_flags
> 
> Roland Dreier wrote:
> >    Michael> Hi!  enum ib_device_cap_flags from ib_verbs.h does not
> >    Michael> seem to be used anywhere.  Specifically there does not
> >    Michael> seem to exist a way to find out the device capabilities.
> >
> >    Michael> # grep -rIi ib_device_cap_flags .
> >    Michael> ./include/ib_verbs.h:enum ib_device_cap_flags {
> >
> >This is partially because of Sean's somewhat unfortunate habit of
> >defining enums but then just using "int" everywhere in the API.  The
> >way to get the capabilities is to use ib_query_device -- the flags
> >will be returned in the device_cap_flags member of struct
> >ib_device_attr.
> 
> Int is used because the returned value is a bitwise OR of the valid 
> capabilities, and is not a value defined by the enum.  We can change 
> the enum values to #define if that would make it any easier.
> 
> - Sean
> 

No, probably not :)

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MST - Michael S. Tsirkin