[openib-general] Re: 2.6.14 heads up: ip_dev_find() not exported

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting Roland Dreier <rolandd at cisco.com>:
> Subject: 2.6.14 heads up: ip_dev_find() not exported
> 
> I noticed while compiling against an up-to-date kernel tree that SDP
> and IBAT both use the function ip_dev_find().  The EXPORT_SYMBOL for
> this function was removed during the 2.6.14 devel cycle.
> 
> I haven't looked yet at what this function does, how SDP and IBAT use
> it or what it could be replaced by.  But now would be a good time to
> figure out whether we need to ask for it to be re-exported, or if
> there's a better alternative to do whatever it does for us.
> 
>  - R.

Yes, this seems to have been removed as part of a general "cleanups" patch.

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0742fd53a3774781255bd1e471e7aa2e4a82d5f7


So the question is: given a source and destination address pair
that resolves to a loopback device, how to
map it to a specific IPoIB device that serves the source?

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MST