[openib-general] Re: [RFC] patch to export userspace to kernel QP attribute structure

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:45, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:
> > If it's just marshalling between user and kernel formats, I'd stick it
> > in uverbs_marshall.c.  But if there's going to be something
> > substantial then maybe it make sense to create a user SA module.
> 
> I added a three new files:
> 
> ib_marshall.h - defines the copy functions (kernel only)
> ib_user_sa.h - defines the user path record (user/kernel)
> uverbs_marshall.c - implements the copy functions
> 
> Any objection to doing something similar for libibverbs?  This would move sa.h 
> from libibat to libibverbs, which would allow libibcm and librdmacm to both 
> depend only on libibverbs.

Ultimately I suspect there will be something like libusa where sa.h
would reside.

-- Hal