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

[Fab Tillier]

> From: Eitan Zahavi [mailto:eitan at mellanox.co.il]
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:55 PM
> 
> Roland Dreier wrote:
> > The kernel will need to have the HCA port active with the mthca driver
> > running before it can mount root and get to /etc/sysconfig/network or
> > wherever the hostname is set.
> 
> If we limit our solution to the common case:
> On a regular non disk-less machine is it possible to have the node description
> be set before the QP0 is physically UP?

I don't know where the machine name is set in Linux.  In Windows, it is stored
in the registry, and loaded when the access layer first loads (before any QPs
are allocated).

- Fab