[openib-general] [KDAPL] module initialization order
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Tue May 10 10:50:00 PDT 2005
Itamar> I still see problem when NFSoRDMA or any other dat
Itamar> consumer and dat will be build statically but the
Itamar> dat_provider (ib,iwarp,...) will be build as a module.
Itamar> who will protect the dat consumer ? how will the dat
Itamar> consumer know that there is no dat_provider available when
Itamar> dat_provider modules are not loaded?
It seems that the kDAPL design of having consumers call a function to
get a list of adapters does not fit very well with the Linux model of
adapters appearing asynchronously due to drivers being loaded or even
due to device hotplug.
- R.
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