Re: May we create roce_ud_header_unpack()?

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> On Feb 18, 2020, at 3:58 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 03:53:45PM -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote:
>> There is an ib_ud_header_unpack() in core/ud_header.c, but it has no consumers.
>> 
>> Would I be allowed to add a roce version alongside it?
> 
> Why? Personally I loath these accessors
> 
> I have been thinking of dropping all of them in favour of the stuff in
> include/rdma/iba.h, which has really been a good improvement to the cm
> 
>> May I do that now or must it wait until a consumer is ready to be checked in?
> 
> New stuff always needs in-tree users.
> 
> You can send a patch to delete ib_ud_header_unpack() though
> 
> Jason

OK.

It was being used for query_ah and query_qp, but I can design that out, no problem.

Are we still permitted to use ib_ud_header_pack() or should we avoid that too?

-Andrew





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