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

From: Steve Wise
Date: Mon Dec 04 2006 - 11:51:23 EST


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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