Subject: Re: [PATCH  v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures
From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:50:48 -0600
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On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 08:45 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > 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?
> 

Yes. The iWARP devices must all support the iwcm methods for sure.


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