[openib-general] Some Missing Features from mthca/user MAD access

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:56, Roland Dreier wrote:
> I don't understand this.  The (logical) port state shows everything
> the LEDs show:
> a state of INIT means one LED is on, ACTIVE means both are on.

What if it doesn't get to INIT ?

> Also, the justification for doing this in the kernel is that otherwise
> userspace needs
> to send a MAD to the local node to get this information.  But so does
> the kernel.
> So why does this code really need to be in the kernel?

Isn't the kernel code already obtaining PortInfo ? It seems like a minor
addition to me.

-- Hal