[openib-general] ipoib and core patches for 2.6.17

[Sean Hefty]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Sean, there's a patch
> https://openib.org/svn/trunk/contrib/mellanox/patches/mad_port_close.patch
> which corrects an oops condition in mad.c. You had efficiency concerns with
> respect to this patch, but no better solution surfaced. Could you try fixing
> this if you have a better idea?

I will look at a fix for this that checks the state of the port.

- Sean