[openib-general] vendor_id, vendor_part_id, hw_ver

[Michael Krause]

At 02:00 PM 7/8/2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Kevin> Is openIB going to do anything to enumerate the
>     Kevin> vendor_id,vendor_part_id and hw_ver in a common header
>     Kevin> fille or is it the responsiblity of ULP running ontop of
>     Kevin> the lib to understand these values?
>
>I don't have anything planned to enumerate those values.  I would
>guess that only a very few ULPs should even look at them.

Why would this ever have to be examined by a ULP?  This seems like a 
low-level driver issue.  Given the verbs semantics abstract the hardware, 
aside from the HCA-specific driver, the rest of the stack should be unaware 
of any thing below.

Mike 
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