netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures

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Message-Id: <1165251048.32724.37.camel@stevo-desktop>
Date:	Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:50:48 -0600
From:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	openib-general@...nib.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures

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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