> What kind of data might be located within the memory pointed to by the
> FD? I.e. Could there be configuration information for the connection
> and/or HCA? Could there be the data waiting to be sent (although I
> don't believe the HCA buffers)? Would it just be the command sent to
> the HCA?

A write to the uverbs file issues a command to the lower driver, for example, 
to allocate a QP or CQ.  Reads are not supported.  A read to the event file 
will retrieve information about an asynchronous event (e.g. port up/down).  
Writes to that file are not handled.

- Sean
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