[ofw] When one can release CA interface

Leonid Keller leonid at mellanox.co.il
Tue Sep 1 05:35:25 PDT 2009


fdo_release_resources() in bus_pnp.c releases the last interface with
low-level driver only after IBAL cleanup with the following explanation:

/* AL needs the HCA to stick around until AL cleanup has completed. ...
*/

My question is - why ?
How may/can IBAL proceed to work with HCA after CA has been deregistered
?
What kind of works could be still pending ?



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