[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0/29v2] InfiniBand core update

[Andrew Morton]

Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:11, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Well I was asking.  Do you guys think that this material is appropriate to
> > and safe enough for 2.6.13?
> 
> I used your versions of the patches (Tom's ucm one is needed and you
> added that). I also back ported the trailing whitespace elimination
> changes.
> 
> I just completed a regression test including uCM, CM, RMPP, OpenSM,
> IPoIB and it looks good to me.
> 

OK, well the timing of a merge is mainly up to you guys, especially as the
subsystem is pretty raw and you're the only people who use it ;)

Two things from a quick scan:

a) In many places the patch does

	if (p)
		kfree(p);

   But kfree(0) is permitted.  The cleanup police will be after you at
   some stage - it'd be best to fix those things up immediately.

b) The patch exports a ton of symbols to non-GPL modules:

+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_create_ah_from_wc);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_modify_mad);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_create_send_mad);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_free_send_mad);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_coalesce_recv_mad);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_sa_service_rec_query);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_create_cm_id);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_destroy_cm_id);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_cm_listen);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_req);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_rep);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_rtu);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_dreq);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_drep);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_rej);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_mra);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_lap);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_apr);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_sidr_req);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_sidr_rep);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_cm_establish);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_cm_init_qp_attr);

   Why?