Subject: Re: [RFC 02/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Bus driver

From: "Vishwanathapura, Niranjana" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:29:38 -0800

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 09:15:45AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> And will move the hfi_vnic module under
>> ‘drivers/infiniband/ulp/hfi_vnic’.
>
>I would prefer drivers/net/ethernet
>
>This is clearly not a ULP since it doesn't use verbs.
>

I understand it is not using verbs, but the control path (ib_device client) is 
using verbs (IB MAD).
Our prefernce is to keep it somewhere under drivers/infiniband. Summarizing 
reasons again here,

- VNIC control driver (ib_device client) is an IB MAD agent.
- It is purly a software construct, encapsualtes ethernet packets in Omni-path 
packet and depends on hfi1 driver here for HW access.

Doug,
Any comments?

>Jason
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