On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> wrote: >> We can give client->add() callback a return value and make >> ib_register_device() return -ENOMEM when it failed, just wondering >> why we don't do this at first, any special reason?
> No idea, but having ib_register_device fail and unwind if a client > fails to attach makes sense to me. It seems a bit unfriendly to fail an entire device if one ULP has a problem. Let's say you have a system whose main network connection is IPoIB. Would you want that connection to come up even if, say, the NFS/RDMA server fails to find the memory registration type it likes? - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
