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authorEli Cohen <eli@dev.mellanox.co.il>2010-08-26 10:18:43 -0400
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>2010-10-25 13:20:39 -0400
commit33c87f0af60146b375220809c1cb745ac1a86edf (patch)
treef22e0a1f8fbe6b05f2f15c517d3b8e9b77581662 /drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c
parent2420b60b1dc4ed98cb1788e928bc57ff2efa1a8d (diff)
mlx4_core: Allow protocol drivers to find corresponding interfaces
Add a mechanism for mlx4 protocol drivers to get a pointer to other drivers's device objects. For this, an exported function, mlx4_get_protocol_dev() is added, which allows a driver to get some other driver's device based on the protocol that the driver implements. Two protocols are added: MLX4_PROTOCOL_IB and MLX4_PROTOCOL_EN. This will be used in mlx4 IBoE support so that mlx4_ib can find the corresponding mlx4_en netdev. Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il> [ Clean up and rename a few things. - Roland ] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c
index 555067802751..73c94fcdfddf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c
@@ -161,3 +161,24 @@ void mlx4_unregister_device(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
161 161
162 mutex_unlock(&intf_mutex); 162 mutex_unlock(&intf_mutex);
163} 163}
164
165void *mlx4_get_protocol_dev(struct mlx4_dev *dev, enum mlx4_protocol proto, int port)
166{
167 struct mlx4_priv *priv = mlx4_priv(dev);
168 struct mlx4_device_context *dev_ctx;
169 unsigned long flags;
170 void *result = NULL;
171
172 spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->ctx_lock, flags);
173
174 list_for_each_entry(dev_ctx, &priv->ctx_list, list)
175 if (dev_ctx->intf->protocol == proto && dev_ctx->intf->get_dev) {
176 result = dev_ctx->intf->get_dev(dev, dev_ctx->context, port);
177 break;
178 }
179
180 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->ctx_lock, flags);
181
182 return result;
183}
184EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mlx4_get_protocol_dev);