[openib-general] Re: [patch 11/26] IPOB: Move destructor from neigh->ops to neigh_param

[David S. Miller]

From: gregkh at suse.de
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:00:30 -0700

> From: Michael Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
> 
> struct neigh_ops currently has a destructor field, but not a constructor field.
> The infiniband/ulp/ipoib in-tree driver stashes some info in the neighbour
> structure (the results of the second-stage lookup from ARP results to real
> link-level path), and it uses neigh->ops->destructor to get a callback so it can
> clean up this extra info when a neighbour is freed.  We've run into problems
> with this: since the destructor is in an ops field that is shared between
> neighbours that may belong to different net devices, there's no way to set/clear
> it safely.
> 
> The following patch moves this field to neigh_parms where it can be safely set,
> together with its twin neigh_setup, and switches the only two in-kernel users
> (ipoib and clip) to this interface.

Major NAK.

This does not fix a bug, it is merely and API change that the
inifiniband folks want for some of their infrastructure.

It was accepted for 2.6.17, but this change is not appropriate
for the -stable release branch.

Furthermore, this version of the patch here will break the build of
ATM.