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

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Tue Sep 20 13:01:58 PDT 2005


Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Are you referring to the changes for:
> Adds node_guid and node_desc fields to struct ib_device

Only to adding the node_guid to struct ib_device

> At this point, I forget why node_guid needs to be moved from
> ib_device_attr to ib_device.

Initially there were three ULPs that needed to query the device just to obtain 
the node_guid, with the uCM being the fourth.  The latest changes to uCM keep 
this at three.

- Sean



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