From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [RFC] libibverbs IB device hotplug support Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:36:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20170227223600.GA1526@obsidianresearch.com> References: <20170227185912.GM5891@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Alex Rosenbaum Cc: Mike Marciniszyn , Steve Wise , Lijun Ou , "M: Wei Hu(Xavier)" , Dennis Dalessandro , Tatyana Nikolova , Vladimir Sokolovsky , Yishai Hadas , Devesh Sharma , Ram Amrani , Ariel Elior , Moni Shoua , Adit Ranadive , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:11:58AM +0200, Alex Rosenbaum wrote: > This is definitely one approach I was thinking about as well. It will > surely help clean some of the older, not extendible API's. > I'd like to call out to all provide library maintainer. if you have > started code porting from the old ibv_register_driver() to the new > extendible verbs_register_driver() then please move forward with > submitting it. Once using the extendible 'struct verbs_device' it will > be easy to add the new unint_device() functionality to all provided > library in order to support plug-in for all. Someone is going to have to take this on.. Conceptually it isn't hard to do, but I figured it was too complicated to undertake without the ability to test. Maybe you could help out by providing a bunch of information how to do the conversion and show a patch for something like RXE. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html