From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 for-next 1/2] IB/uverbs: Enable device removal when there are active user space applications Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:05:30 +0200 Message-ID: <546C4F4A.1070004@mellanox.com> References: <1416312682-7899-1-git-send-email-yishaih@mellanox.com> <1416312682-7899-2-git-send-email-yishaih@mellanox.com> <546B59E2.2050707@mellanox.com> <546B72A1.2080403@dev.mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Or Gerlitz , Yishai Hadas Cc: Yishai Hadas , Roland Dreier , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , jackm-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 11/18/2014 11:42 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Yishai Hadas > >> >The IB device pointer is not valid at all spots, for example after the HW >> >Device was removed, that's why we set this information on the uverbs device. In 2nd thought, they must be point @ time where it is valid, right? so you can query/cache the whole 32bit device caps on that minute and use it later. Or. -- 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