Re: Question about multiple modules talking to one adapter

2005-08-08 Thread Roland Dreier
Timur> 1) Each driver registers its own ISR and has its own Timur> mapping the adapter memory. This is silly and leads to all sorts of horrible code. For example you'll have to deal with the fact that only one driver can do request_mem_region() on the PCI adapter, and no matter what you c

Question about multiple modules talking to one adapter

2005-08-08 Thread Timur Tabi
Hi, We have a PCI adapter that supports three different APIs / interfaces. The adapter is an OpenIB device, a regular 10GB ethernet Netdev device, and there's also a proprietary interface called CCIL that we invented. The CCIL interface is really just a bunch of custom IOCtls. The problem w