From: "Sean Hefty" <sean.hefty@intel.com>
To: "'Steve Wise'" <swise@opengridcomputing.com>, <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       <general@lists.openfabrics.org>
References: <20070912100025.3190.89259.stgit@dell3.ogc.int>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery.
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:13:08 -0700
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>RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery.
>
>Calling arp_send() to initiate neighbour discovery (ND) doesn't do the
>full ND protocol.  Namely, it doesn't handle retransmitting the arp
>request if it is dropped. The function neigh_event_send() does all this.
>Without doing full ND, rdma address resolution fails in the presence of
>dropped arp bcast packets.
>
>Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>

Acked-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>

Roland - can you please queue this up for 2.6.24?
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