[openib-general] [PATCH] RFC Verbs: add support for transport specific verbs

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Tue Feb 28 18:06:29 PST 2006


Sean Hefty wrote:
> Add support for transport specific extensions to the ib_device verbs.
> Relocate process_mad as an IB specific verb.
> 
> This provides a mechanism to add iWarp specific functionality, such as
> the iWarp CM calls, to ib_device.

Third proposal from Fab:

struct rdma_device {
	most everything
};

struct ib_device {
	struct rdma_device dev;
	IB specific operations;
};

Of course, this is a much larger change.

- Sean



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