Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 14:58:12 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: question about drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c's kobject usage |
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:47:51PM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: > >So I was curious, was this done on purpose? If so, why? If not, any > >objection to me switching it over to be using struct device properly? > > It's entirely possible I have this wrong, but the intent is to export some > infiniband communication management message counters and relate them to the > corresponding ib_device/port. For example: > > /sys/class/infiniband_cm/<device name>/<port number>/<counter group>/<counter> > > (E.g. /sys/class/infiniband_cm/mthca0/1/cm_tx_msgs/req) > > If there's a better way to handle this, I have no objection to changing it.
Yes, just hang all of the <port number> stuff off of the original <device name> struct device. That seems like it would be much simpler.
thanks,
greg k-h
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