linux/drivers/infiniband
Michael S. Tsirkin c5ecd62c25 [NET]: Move destructor from neigh->ops to neigh_params
struct neigh_ops currently has a destructor field, which no in-kernel
drivers outside of infiniband use.  The infiniband/ulp/ipoib in-tree
driver stashes some info in the neighbour structure (the results of
the second-stage lookup from ARP results to real link-level path), and
it uses neigh->ops->destructor to get a callback so it can clean up
this extra info when a neighbour is freed.  We've run into problems
with this: since the destructor is in an ops field that is shared
between neighbours that may belong to different net devices, there's
no way to set/clear it safely.

The following patch moves this field to neigh_parms where it can be
safely set, together with its twin neigh_setup.  Two additional
patches in the patch series update ipoib to use this new interface.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:25:41 -08:00
..
core Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2006-02-14 13:49:37 -08:00
hw/mthca IB/mthca: bump driver version and release date 2006-02-13 12:19:44 -08:00
ulp [NET]: Move destructor from neigh->ops to neigh_params 2006-03-20 22:25:41 -08:00
Kconfig IB: Add SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) initiator 2005-11-02 14:07:13 -08:00
Makefile IB: Add SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) initiator 2005-11-02 14:07:13 -08:00