[openib-general] [PATCH v3 0/6] Tranport Neutral Verbs Proposal.

[James Lentini]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Krishna Kumar wrote:

> 2. Changed rdma_ to rdmav_. This also enabled to retain rdma_create_qp() and
>    rdma_destroy_qp() routines.

I'm glad to see that the generic RDMA verbs are becoming a reality.

Exporting QP create/destroy functions from both the RDMA CM library 
and RDMA verbs library is going to confusion new developers. The 
names, rdmav_create_qp() and rdma_create_qp(), only differ by 1 
character and their arguments only differ by 1 parameter (the RDMA 
CM's version takes a cma id).
    
Are the rdmav_ versions intended to be generic or are they intended
for use with the native communications managers (IB CM and iWARP CM)?

Is there a way that the differences could be made clearer? Could one 
be eliminated?