[openib-general] [PATCH 3/3] iWARP CM

[Tom Tucker]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 16:48 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> > No it doesn't map to the physical port, it just typically maps
> > to a physical port. It maps to an L2 endpoint. The ethernet
> > portion of the device may be doing binding.
> > 
> > In either case, the L2 endpoint can have multiple IP addresses,
> > but it always has a primary IP address.
> 
> I can't find where iwcm_port::local_addr is set or used.  Maybe it can just be 
> removed?  In fact, I can't even figure out how iwcm_port is used, or even 
> iwcm_device for that matter.  Are these used outside of this particular patch 
> somehow, or am I just missing where they're used?
> 

I think this is dead code left over from an implementation that did not
use the gid cache for device location. I will clean this up and resubmit
with Sean's other suggestions.

Sorry for the confusion.

> - Sean