[openib-general][PATCH 1 of 3] repost: Client Reregister support for kernel space

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed May 31 13:40:43 PDT 2006


    Leonid> Generating the LID_CHANGE event instead of
    Leonid> CLIENT_REREGISTER is simply not correct.

    Leonid> We need the event for our user mode applications.
    Leonid> Although the patch doesn't change current functionality, I
    Leonid> wouldn't like to write applications based on the erroneous
    Leonid> code. The application won't just work with devices that
    Leonid> generate the event correctly.

OK, I don't have any real objection to this patch, so I'll fix up the
series and apply them for 2.6.18.  And it looks easy to fix up ipath
too -- any reason you didn't do that?

 - R.



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