[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] fix umad object lifetime stuff

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Tue Nov 1 09:51:59 PST 2005


    >> Roland Dreier wrote: > Something like this is probably required
    >> for ucm and anything else > that exports a character device,
    >> since everyone seems to have copied > my bad user_mad code.
    >> But I haven't had a chance to do anything > beyond user_mad and
    >> uverbs so far...

    Hal> Should this be done for uat too or doesn't it matter ?

The bugs definitely exist in uat.  However, fixing things like passing
kernel pointers to userspace would seem like a higher priority to me.

Or we could just deprecate uat in favor of Sean's work...

 - R.



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