On 06/29/2015 09:57 AM, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Persuant to Liran's comments on node_type on linux-rdma
> mailing list:
>
> In an effort to reform the RDMA core and ULPs to minimize use of
> node_type in struct ib_device, an additional bit is added to
> struct ib_device for is_switch (IB switch). This is needed
> to be initialized by any IB switch device driver. This is a
> NEW requirement on such device drivers which are all
> "out of tree".
>
> In addition, an ib_switch helper was added to ib_verbs.h
> based on the is_switch device bit rather than node_type
> (although those should be consistent).
>
> The RDMA core (MAD, SMI, agent, sa_query, multicast, sysfs)
> as well as (IPoIB and SRP) ULPs are updated where
> appropriate to use this new helper. In some cases,
> the helper is now used under the covers of using
> rdma_[start end]_port rather than the open coding
> previously used.
>
> Reviewed-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-By: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Identical to RFCv2 patch with additional Reviewed and Tested by lines
Thanks, applied.
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Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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