[openib-general] [PATCH] Allow setting of NodeDescription

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:38, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> This is somewhat cumbersome but clearly the host name is
>     Hal> known and could be burnt nonvolatilely into the SMA.
> 
> Actually it can't in general, since the same hardware can be rebooted
> into different roles and possibly different hostnames.

As I said, it is cumbersome. The nonvolatile way would require the host
name to be updated if it were to change.

Anyhow, what I said before was a little off, the diagnostics are capable
of seeing the new NodeDescription. Whether an SM does is implementation
dependent.

-- Hal