[openib-general] [PATCH] netdevice.h: Add RDMA private pointer to the net_device structure

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Mon Oct 3 14:50:21 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:35, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> We will have this shortly. I have been waiting for this to
>     Hal> propose the changes to SDP et al.
> 
> OK, but I don't think it makes sense to merge this upstream until
> there is in-tree code that will use it.

I wanted to get this in so I could add the code to IPoIB to use this so SDP
and others no longer poke at IPoIB's private data. This is a small
change. Should this change be made locally (in OpenIB) first (and we'll
have our own modified netdevice.h for a short time) ?

-- Hal




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