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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:49, Roland Dreier wrote:
> I guess I'm still missing something, because you have just as much chance
> to catch the logical state in DOWN as seeing the physical state in Polling

Also, if it doesn't get to init, phys state might be disabled. There are
other cases where this will be useful as another piece of information.

> (if the logical state is INIT then the phys state will always be LinkUp).

Right. No value in that case (or when logical state is ACTIVE).

> In any case I added a phys_state attribute in sysfs because I guess it
> can't hurt.

Right, it can't hurt :-) It may be a diagnostic aid in some broken
cases. Thanks. 

-- Hal