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From: Stefan Roscher <ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [ewg] [PATCH] IB/ehca: Protect QP against destroying until all
	async events for it are handled.
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:00:14 +0200
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On Wednesday 07 May 2008 17:32:03 Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > We are not sure if this should be fixed in the driver or in uverbs itself.
>  > Roland, what's your opinion about this?
> 
> Would be nice to be able to fix it in uverbs but I don't see how.  In
> particular a kernel consumer has to have the same guarantee that no
> async events will come in after destroy QP returns.  And I don't see any
> way generic code can provide a guarantee about what low-level driver
> code may do internally.
> 

I agree, that's why I posted the driver fix first.
So, will you apply it next?

Regards Stefan