Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver | From | Bryan O'Sullivan <> | Date | Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:54:50 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 09:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Idealy, nothing should be new ioctls. But in the end, it all depends on > exactly what you are trying to do with each different one.
Fair enough.
> I really don't know what the subnet management stuff involves, sorry. > But doesn't the open-ib layer handle that all for you already?
It does when our OpenIB driver is being used. But our lower level driver is independent of OpenIB (and is often used without the infiniband stuff even configured into the kernel), and needs to provide some way for a userspace subnet management agent to send and receive packets.
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