Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 00/16] add Intel X722 iWARP driver

From: "Steve Wise" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:57:12 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Or Gerlitz
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 4:25 PM
> To: Faisal Latif
> Cc: Doug Ledford; [email-masked]; Linux Netdev List; Jeff Kirsher; [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] add Intel X722 iWARP driver
> 
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Faisal Latif <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Changes since v2:
> [...]
> >                 *move netlink patch up
> 
> I also asked you why the port mapper code has to be present in each
> iwarp driver and not part of the IB core stack, and you responded
> "i40iw iwarp driver registers with port mapper and uses its services.
> Beside that it is not the scope of the patch series"  -- well, it is
> in the scope of upstream review to pose such questions, please
> address.
> 
> Or.

Hey Or, 

There is a common service/API in the IB core for iWarp port mapping.  See drivers/infinbiand/core/iwpm*.c and include/rdma/iw_portmap.h.

Steve.