[openib-general] madeye backport patch for OFED 1.1

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Aug 16 05:13:32 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Eitan Zahavi <eitan at mellanox.co.il>:
> > By the way, I think that longer-term we really want to be able to let
> > userspace expose a madeye-like functionality, snooping on all packets.
> > 
> > It seems this could be a trivial extension to the umad module - any
> > objections to this approach?
>
> [EZ] As long as one can control user access to that interface using different
>      access control then regular umad.

Sure, we don't want to break the ABI.

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MST




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