Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 01/11] RDMA: Add EFA related definitions

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On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 05:28:32PM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:
> >> Our link layer is Ethernet, but the wire protocol is not the same as RoCE so it
> >> was decided to use unspecified link layer.
> >> The wire protocol is tightly coupled to the wire protocol for EC2’s VPC software
> >> defined network (EFA is not designed to be used independently of EC2’s VPC data
> >> plane).
> > 
> > It is possible this should just *_UNSPECIFIED/OTHER or something
> > general so it can be shared. Neither USNIC nor EFA need these values
> > for any purpose, AFAIK.
> > 
> > They come out of sysfs and a few APIs they don't use anyhow.
> 
> OK, I'll change the EFA stuff to unspecified (to be consistent with the link layer).
> I'd rather leave the usnic definitions, but it's up to you, let me know what you
> prefer.

usnic is already abi, we shouldn't change it

Jason



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