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

[Sean Hefty]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Sean> I can't say that I grasp the relationship between the cdev_*
>     Sean> and class_* calls yet, but should umad and ucm create their
>     Sean> own classes?  I'm trying to add the ucma, and I'm wondering
>     Sean> if we should add another infiniband_blah class, versus
>     Sean> adding an rdma_cm entry somewhere else.
> 
> ucma is not really attached to a single device, is it?  How may
> character devices are you going to create?

No - it's not attached to a device.  I was going to create just one character 
device, which is why I was wondering if creating a new class was the right approach.

- Sean