[openib-general] Re: RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:50 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the driver, but would the lower level verbs interfaces 
> work for this?  Could you just post whatever datagrams that you want directly to 
> your management QPs?

Our lowest-level driver works in the absence of any IB support being
compiled into the kernel, so in that situation, there are no QPs or any
other management infrastructure present at all.  All of that stuff lives
in a higher layer, in which situation the cut-down subnet management
agent doesn't get used, and something like OpenSM is more appropriate.

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