From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, monis@voltaire.com,
monisonlists@gmail.com, ogerlitz@voltaire.com, jgarzik@pobox.com,
davem@davemloft.net, general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:33:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaps0glve4.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18593.1190071438@death> (Jay Vosburgh's message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:23:58 -0700")
> Conceptually, I see your point and I'm ok with doing it either
> way. My only question is, would this change would make the ipoib module
> dependent upon having the bonding module loaded (to resolve all of the
> symbols)?
Yes, I guess so, if that function is in bonding. Hmm, that wouldn't
be a good change.
Maybe this new notification function should be in net/core/dev.c
instead of exporting call_netdevice_notifiers()?
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 23:40 [ofa-general] [PATCH 00/11] IPoIB support for bonding Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 01/11] IB/ipoib: Export call to call_netdevice_notifiers and add new private flag Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 02/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 03/11] IB/ipoib: Bound the net device to the ipoib_neigh structue Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 04/11] IB/ipoib: Verify address handle validity on send Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 05/11] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave non ARPHRD_ETHER Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 06/11] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave netdevices not supporting set_mac_address() Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 07/11] net/bonding: Enable IP multicast for bonding IPoIB devices Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 08/11] net/bonding: Handle wrong assumptions that slave is always an Ethernet device Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 9/11] net/bonding: Delay sending of gratuitous ARP to avoid failure Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 10/11] net/bonding: Destroy bonding master when last slave is gone Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 11/11] bonding: Optionally allow ethernet slaves to keep own MAC Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-17 22:20 ` [PATCH 04/11] IB/ipoib: Verify address handle validity on send Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:23 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 03/11] IB/ipoib: Bound the net device to the ipoib_neigh structue Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:22 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 02/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:25 ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 23:23 ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-17 23:33 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-09-18 17:42 ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-19 16:41 ` Moni Shoua
2007-09-19 16:44 ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:17 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 01/11] IB/ipoib: Export call to call_netdevice_notifiers and add new private flag Roland Dreier
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