From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: rolandd@cisco.com, hal.rosenstock@gmail.com,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c's kobject usage
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:58:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080522215812.GA3366@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c8bc55$7c2dd680$ec248686@amr.corp.intel.com>
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
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2008-05-22 20:34 question about drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c's kobject usage Greg KH
2008-05-22 21:47 ` Sean Hefty
2008-05-22 21:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
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