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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:45:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaodqjip91.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165249706.32724.35.camel@stevo-desktop> (Steve Wise's message of "Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:28:25 -0600")

 > 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-04 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-02 22:49 [PATCH v2 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] Linux RDMA Core Changes Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] Device Discovery and ULLD Linkage Steve Wise
2006-12-03 16:03   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures Steve Wise
2006-12-03 12:07   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-04 16:28     ` Steve Wise
2006-12-04 16:45       ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-12-04 16:50         ` Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager Steve Wise
2006-12-04 11:08   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-04 15:45     ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-04 16:20       ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05  5:13         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05 15:07           ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 10:45         ` Brice Goglin
2006-12-05 16:02           ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 16:27             ` [openib-general] " Steve Wise
2006-12-05 17:14           ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-05  5:07       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05  5:13         ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-05  5:16           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05  5:27             ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-05 15:14               ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 15:27                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05 15:46                   ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 15:03           ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 15:02         ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 15:19           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05 15:39             ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 15:59               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05 16:12                 ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 16:17                   ` [openib-general] " Steve Wise
2006-12-05 16:31                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05 16:47                     ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 17:26                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05 17:32                         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-05 17:51                         ` Steve Wise
2006-12-05 18:09                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-06  1:27                             ` [openib-general] " Michael Krause
2006-12-02 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] Queue Pairs Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] Completion Queues Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] Async Event Handler Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] Memory Registration Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] Core WQE/CQE Types Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] Core HAL Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] Core Resource Allocation Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] Core Debug functions Steve Wise
2006-12-02 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] Kconfig/Makefile Steve Wise
2006-12-02 23:13 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver Francois Romieu
2006-12-03  0:24   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-04 16:24     ` Steve Wise

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