[openib-general] [PATCH v3] ib_sa: require SA registration

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Sep 13 17:02:14 PDT 2006


Roland Dreier wrote:
> OK, I added the following to my for-2.6.19 branch.  The differences
> from your patch are:
> 
>  - CMA can have a static variable (good to avoid clashes with a global
>    'sa_client' variable name too)
>  - IPoIB does not use multicast module upstream, fix ipoib_multicast.c too.
>  - Simplify sa_query.c changes a little.  I don't like the
>    "deref_client" name for a function, since it sounds too much like
>    dereferencing a pointer rather than dropping a reference.  And I
>    also didn't like ib_sa_client_get() having a magic side effect of
>    setting query->client.  So I just open-coded more stuff.
> 
> How does this look?

I took the changes in your for-2.6.19 branch, modified the original patch to 
match, and committed that to svn.

- Sean




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