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From: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>,
	Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"D. Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>,
	Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>,
	Nils Hoppmann <niho@linux.ibm.com>,
	Niklas Schnell <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>,
	Thorsten Winkler <twinkler@linux.ibm.com>,
	Karsten Graul <kgraul@linux.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.ibm.com>, Aswin K <aswin@linux.ibm.com>,
	Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/smc: Fix lookup of netdev by using ib_device_get_netdev()
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 12:56:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241107125643.04f97394.pasic@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241106135910.GF5006@unreal>

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 15:59:10 +0200
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Does  fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c qualify as inside of RDMA core code?  
> 
> RDMA core code is drivers/infiniband/core/*.

Understood. So this is a violation of the no direct access to the
callbacks rule.

> 
> > I would guess it is not, and I would not actually mind sending a patch
> > but I have trouble figuring out the logic behind  commit ecce70cf17d9
> > ("ksmbd: fix missing RDMA-capable flag for IPoIB device in
> > ksmbd_rdma_capable_netdev()").  
> 
> It is strange version of RDMA-CM. All other ULPs use RDMA-CM to avoid
> GID, netdev and fabric complexity.

I'm not familiar enough with either of the subsystems. Based on your
answer my guess is that it ain't outright bugous but still a layering 
violation. Copying linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org so that 
the smb are aware.

Thank you very much for all the explanations!

Regards,
Halil 

       reply	other threads:[~2024-11-07 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20241025072356.56093-1-wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <20241027201857.GA1615717@unreal>
     [not found]   ` <8d17b403-aefa-4f36-a913-7ace41cf2551@linux.ibm.com>
     [not found]     ` <20241105112313.GE311159@unreal>
     [not found]       ` <20241106102439.4ca5effc.pasic@linux.ibm.com>
     [not found]         ` <20241106135910.GF5006@unreal>
2024-11-07 11:56           ` Halil Pasic [this message]
2024-11-07 12:13             ` [PATCH net] net/smc: Fix lookup of netdev by using ib_device_get_netdev() Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-07 23:40             ` Namjae Jeon
2024-11-08 17:59               ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-09  5:32                 ` Namjae Jeon
2024-12-13 11:07                 ` Kangjing Huang
2024-12-13 12:15                   ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-12-14  2:33                   ` Namjae Jeon
2024-12-14  6:06                     ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-12-14  8:02                       ` Kangjing Huang
2024-12-19 16:56                         ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-01-07 22:51                           ` Kangjing Huang
2025-01-08  9:31                             ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-01-08 17:27                               ` Tom Talpey
2025-01-08 22:40                                 ` Kangjing Huang
2025-01-09  7:59                                   ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-01-09  8:02                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-09 10:43                               ` Kangjing Huang
2025-01-09 17:49                                 ` Tom Talpey
2025-01-15  7:17                                   ` Christoph Hellwig

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