[openib-general] netdev reference counting problem with ib_at

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:19, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 20:15, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >     Sean> I continue to hit this same issue, so I've started looking
> >     Sean> at the ib_at code. Ib_at accesses struct ipoib_dev_priv to
> >     Sean> get information about the related port that IPoIB is using.
> >     Sean> Is there some other way for AT to get to the same
> >     Sean> information?  It seems wrong for AT to poke into the priv
> >     Sean> data of a net_device. Should IPoIB expose a function that AT
> >     Sean> can call to map IP addresses (or net_device) to IB ports?
> >     Sean> How do we want to handle this long term?
> > 
> > It probably makes sense to add an ib_ptr (or rdma_ptr) to struct
> > net_device (along with all the other ones like ip_ptr, dn_ptr,
> > ax25_ptr, etc).
> 
> Is this ib_ptr or ipoib_ptr ? I would think iWARP devices would need
> this.

Oops. I meant to write "iWARP devices wouldn't need this".

-- Hal