From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937122AbWLDQpr (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:45:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937128AbWLDQpr (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:45:47 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com ([171.68.10.86]:47190 "EHLO sj-iport-4.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937122AbWLDQpp (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:45:45 -0500 To: Steve Wise Cc: Arjan van de Ven , netdev@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20061202224917.27014.15424.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> <20061202224947.27014.59189.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> <1165147639.3233.211.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1165249706.32724.35.camel@stevo-desktop> From: Roland Dreier Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:45:30 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1165249706.32724.35.camel@stevo-desktop> (Steve Wise's message of "Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:28:25 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Dec 2006 16:45:33.0252 (UTC) FILETIME=[9D8AA840:01C717C3] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-3; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim3002 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Roland, I think at one time we were talking about changing the Core to > better handle this? Either with attributes/capabilities that the low > level driver can set, or by set these method ptrs to NULL and the core > should handle it in the wrapper function... Yes, it would make sense to change the midlayer so we have different sets of mandatory functions for IB and iWARP drivers. For example, the iwcm functions probably should be mandatory for iWARP devices, right? - R.