netdev - Re: [RFC v3 02/11] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) interface

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:04:47 -0800
From:   "Vishwanathapura, Niranjana" <niranjana.vishwanathapura@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:     dledford@...hat.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, dennis.dalessandro@...el.com,
        ira.weiny@...el.com, Liran Liss <liranl@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 02/11] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller
 (VNIC) interface

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 03:19:25PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 02:06:30PM -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
>
>> >> 	IB_DEVICE_RAW_SCATTER_FCS		= (1ULL << 34),
>> >>+	IB_DEVICE_RDMA_NETDEV_HFI_VNIC		= (1ULL << 35),
>> >
>> >What is this called HFI_VNIC anyhow? Shouldn't this be OPA_VNIC? There
>> >is nothing really HFI specific, right?
>>
>> Agreed, OPA_VNIC is more appropriate here. Will change it.
>
>And probably lots of other places too.. :)
>

Well, our driver is called HFI1 and HFI_VNIC is in accordance with our naming 
convention. I will only change the above device attribute name to OPA_VNIC in 
the ib interface just to be consitant with other such defintions here.

>
>> >And this should be rn->dev_priv ?
>>
>> Yah, both will result in same behavior. But yah, what you are suggesting
>> will remove any confusion. Will change in next PATCH series.
>
>Only because the struct has no members, as soon as someone adds
>something it would go booom.
>

Agreed.

>Jason