[ofw][patch][CORE,HW] remove PDO from the upper HCA interface

Leonid Keller leonid at mellanox.co.il
Wed Mar 25 10:13:44 PDT 2009


You need open_ca to set async_event_cb.
But you reminded me someone's (?Fab)idea to allow secondary open_ca's
with NULL in place of async_event_cb.
Then there'll be no need in p_hca_obj field.
I will suggest a patch.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hefty [mailto:sean.hefty at intel.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:05 PM
> To: Leonid Keller; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ofw][patch][CORE,HW] remove PDO from the upper 
> HCA interface 
> 
> >Removing of PDO filed from the interface required changing of 
> >ib_register_ca prototype (for technical reasons).
> >It is - an interface function, so the interface version number was 
> >increased (IB_CI_INTERFACE_VERSION=5).
> 
> The winmad/winverb changes look fine to me.
> 
> As long as we're bumping the interface version, should we do 
> away with the open_ca/close_ca calls?  Getting/putting the 
> interface should be sufficient.
> 
> - Sean
> 
> 



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