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authorOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>2012-09-13 05:56:36 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-09-20 16:49:17 -0400
commit9baa0b0364103dd726384c71db30b74044754743 (patch)
tree5e59fb1bab816eb57e55e6811a3c8642ac91d355 /Documentation
parentb85c715c2e6fabdd18c90df878ed2c6e6cd50fc2 (diff)
IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link_ops support
Add rtnl_link_ops to IPoIB, with the first usage being child device create/delete through them. Childs devices are now either legacy ones, created/deleted through the ipoib sysfs entries, or RTNL ones. Adding support for RTNL childs involved refactoring of ipoib_vlan_add which is now used by both the sysfs and the link_ops code. Also, added ndo_uninit entry to support calling unregister_netdevice_queue from the rtnl dellink entry. This required removal of calls to ipoib_dev_cleanup from the driver in flows which use unregister_netdevice, since the networking core will invoke ipoib_uninit which does exactly that. Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt
index 64eeb55d0c0..f2cfe265e83 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Partitions and P_Keys
The P_Key for any interface is given by the "pkey" file, and the
main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
+ Child interface create/delete can also be done using IPoIB's
+ rtnl_link_ops, where childs created using either way behave the same.
+
Datagram vs Connected modes
The IPoIB driver supports two modes of operation: datagram and