[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] agent: Add IB ping server agent

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] agent: Add IB ping server agent
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 09:44, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I think we want an option to compile this out of kernel, at least
> > for documentation purposes.
> 
> Not sure what you mean for documentation purposes.
> 
> > I think ping its useful (at least here in mellanox I think
> > I was the one who first proposed adding it, before the workshop)
> > but after all it *is* a vendor MAD.
> 
> It is an open vendor MAD which everyone is free to implement. That was
> part of the idea of using getting an OUI for this which can be used
> openly. This MAD and others will be documented for anyone to implement
> in their end port implementations.
> 
> -- Hal
> 

I agree, so maybe it will become standard at some point - then we'll
have to change the code to also support the standard one, right?
Thats what I mean "for documentation purposes" - so that things
outside the spec are easy to locate.

-- 
MST - Michael S. Tsirkin