Subject: Re: [RFC v3 00/11] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC)

From: Jason Gunthorpe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:09:35 -0700

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:26:35PM +0000, Liran Liss wrote:
> > From: [email-masked] [mailto:linux-rdma-
> > [email-masked]] On Behalf Of Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
> 
> > 
> > ChangeLog:
> > =========
> > v2 => v3:
> > a) Introduce and adopt generic RDMA netdev interface including,
> >      - having bottom hfi1 driver directly interfacing with netstack.
> >      - optimizing interface between hfi_vnic and hfi1 driver.
> > b) Remove bitfield usage.
> > c) Move hfi_vnic driver to drivers/infiniband/ulp folder.
> 
> The vnic driver should be placed under drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/*
> since it is HFI-specific.

I think they should call it opa_vnic and keep it in ulp to avoid this
confusion.

Jason