[ofa-general] RE: [RFC v2 PATCH 3/5] rdma/cma: add high availability mode attribute to IDs

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Thu May 15 09:45:24 PDT 2008


Sean Hefty wrote:
>> +enum  rdma_ha_mode {
>> +	RDMA_ALIGN_WITH_NETDEVICE = 1
>> +};
>> +
>> +int rdma_set_high_availability_mode(struct rdma_cm_id *id, enum rdma_ha_mode
>> mode);
>>     
>
> I think we should just always report this event, and let users ignore it if they
> want.  We don't seem to gain much by filtering the event at a lower level.
>
> - Sean
>
>   
Um, doesn't that then change the ABI?  Some apps might hurl on a new 
(unexpected) event.

Steve.



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