Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts with the host stack. | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:18:00 -0700 |
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> > What's wrong with my suggestion of having the iwarp driver create an > > "iwX" interface to go with the normal "ethX" interface? It seems > > simpler to me, and there's a somewhat similar precedent with how > > mac80211 devices create both wlan0 and wmaster0 interfaces. > > - R. > > It seemed much more painful for me to implement. :-) > > I'll look into this, but I think for this to be done, the changes must > be in the cxgb3 driver, not the rdma driver, because the guts of the > netdev struct are all private to cxgb3. Remember that this interface > needs to still do non TCP traffic (like ARP and UDP)... > > Maybe you have something in mind here that I'm not thinking about?
No, I was just spouting off.
But the whole "create a magic alias" seems kind of unfriendly to the user. Maybe as you said, the cxgb3 net driver could create the alias for the iw_cxgb3 driver?
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