[ofa-general] Re: question about drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c's kobject usage

[Greg KH]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:47:51PM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >So I was curious, was this done on purpose?  If so, why?  If not, any
> >objection to me switching it over to be using struct device properly?
> 
> It's entirely possible I have this wrong, but the intent is to export some
> infiniband communication management message counters and relate them to the
> corresponding ib_device/port.  For example:
> 
> /sys/class/infiniband_cm/<device name>/<port number>/<counter group>/<counter>
> 
> (E.g. /sys/class/infiniband_cm/mthca0/1/cm_tx_msgs/req)
> 
> If there's a better way to handle this, I have no objection to changing it.

Yes, just hang all of the <port number> stuff off of the original
<device name> struct device.  That seems like it would be much simpler.

thanks,

greg k-h