[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] CMA and iWARP

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Fri Jan 20 15:12:58 PST 2006


    Sean> I haven't seen anyone object to merging the other changes.
    Sean> Roland, Hal - any opinion?

I don't see much urgency in merging it now.  When svn diverges from
what's upstream in the kernel, it makes my life harder because I have
to figure out which patches belong upstream and sometimes merge things
by hand (when they hit the divergent regions).

Also I can't say I'm thrilled by adding

 > +	struct iw_cm_verbs            *iwcm;

to struct ib_device -- we still really haven't answered the issue of
how iWARP connections interact with the host network stack, we've just
pushed it off into low-level driver code where we can't see it.

Finally (a minor point), there's a lot of stuff like

 > +		  const void* pdata, u8 pdata_len)

It's more idiomatic in the kernel to say "void *pdata" -- in other
words, the space comes before the *, not after it.

 - R.



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