Re: [PATCH 02/12] IB/cma: pass the port number to ib_create_qp

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:30:32AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Right, this was done because rdma_protocol_iwarp takes a port number.
> 
> I think we discussed this once, the core code doesn't actually support
> different protocols on different ports, so the port_num argument to
> rdma_protocol_iwarp is redundant.
> 
> This all starts to look really goofy when multi-port APM is used and
> the QP's port number changes dynamically at runtime. (I have some
> experimental patches that do that), I'd rather see all the port_num
> stuff in this series go away. :(

Reall, I would _love_ to kill all that port_num crap.  But until
we get agreement from Doug and all the core maintainers that we
can kill it from the core, and that multi-protocol devices are
indeed as silly as they seem I can't..
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