Re: [PATCH] IB/core: export struct ib_port

[Roland Dreier <rdreier-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

 > It is used by the new ib_qib driver to expose the SL to VL table
 > since the user level MPI library (libpsm) constructs packets including
 > the IB header. After the driver calls ib_register_device(),
 > it calls device_create_file() to create the files in
 > /sys/class/infiniband/qib0/. Then it uses struct ib_device->port_list
 > to get the pointer to ib_port to add a directory similar to "gids"
 > and "pkeys" for each SL.

Hmm, maybe we should just add a vls directory with sl0 ... sl15 or
something like that in generic code?  I don't see why this needs to be
driver-specific code.

 > Yes, this is what I'm working on.
 > The patch is the only change outside of the hw/qib/ directory.
 > Do you want to see a preview of the sysfs code?

I think the earlier you can post the whole driver, the sooner you'll get
it upstream.

 - R.
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