Re: [PATCH v3 07/28] IB/Verbs: Reform IB-ulp ipoib

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Thu Apr 16 2015 - 12:44:34 EST


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 09:58:18AM +0200, Michael Wang wrote:

> We can give client->add() callback a return value and make
> ib_register_device() return -ENOMEM when it failed, just wondering
> why we don't do this at first, any special reason?

No idea, but having ib_register_device fail and unwind if a client
fails to attach makes sense to me.

Jason
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