[openib-general] Re: [PATH] problem dlopen libibverbs.so

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Wed Jul 20 09:28:48 PDT 2005


    Michael> I wander if its a better idea to scan the plugin
    Michael> directory on ibv_get_devices.  Seems to me it might be
    Michael> more debuggable for applications if they get error
    Michael> messages when they call ibv_get_devices, and not at
    Michael> startup: they can step in debugger to figure out what is
    Michael> printing these things.

    Michael> Roland, would you take such a patch?

I was thinking the same thing -- lazy initialization of libibverbs
when it is first use.  So yes, such a patch would be useful.

 - R.



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