[openib-general] MAD registration for newer vendor classes

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Mon Nov 29 10:59:35 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 13:51, Sean Hefty wrote:
> volta104 at mail.netvision.net.il wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For the newer vendor classes (0x30-0x4f), should we add OUI to the
> > registration and put the demux into the MAD layer for these classes by OUI ?
> > 
> > If so, I will work up a patch for this.
> 
> I guess I need to re-examine the MAD dispatching, but I can't think of 
> a reason why it wouldn't already support vendor classes already.

There are a new range of vendor classes (at IBA 1.1) which embed the OUI
so that multiple vendors can share the same class. There needs to be
another level of demux for these.

-- Hal




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