[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 5 of 13] ipath - use proper address translation routine

[Roland Dreier]

    Christoph> Or stop doing the dma mapping in the IB upper level
    Christoph> drivers.  I told you that we'll get broken hardware
    Christoph> that doesn't want dma mapping in the upper level
    Christoph> driver, and pathscale created exactly that :)

But see my earlier mail to Arjan about RDMA -- what address can a
protocol (eg SRP initiator) put in a message that the other side will
use to initiate a remote DMA operation?  It seems to me it has to be a
bus address, and that means that the protocol has to do the DMA mapping.

 - R.