Re: [PATCH RFC] IB/verbs: introduce rdma_transport_is_ib() to check transport type

[Michael Wang]

Hi, Sean

Thanks for point it out for me :-)

I'll try to follow the conversation to understand what
really needs to be done, see if I could do some
contribution on it.

Regards,
Michael Wang

On 03/19/2015 06:02 PM, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > We have plenty of places where we don't care what exactly the
> > transport type is, but only care if it's IB type.
> >
> > This patch introduce rdma_transport_is_ib() as shortcuts to check
> > whether an 'ib_device' is infiniband transport type, which help us to
> > save some code.
> In most of these places, the check that we want is whether IB management is used.  The transport check is an indirect way of checking for that, and I believe we should use a more direct method of checking for the functionality that's actually desired.
>
> Please see the following thread that is related to these changes:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg23484.html
>
> - Sean

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