[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 15:47 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:

> Huh?  What does OpenSM working or not have to do with the SMA?

My mention of OpenSM was a braino, by the way.  I mixed up ib_mad and
OpenSM in my response.

So.  Our userspace SMA that talks to /dev/ipath_sma can run without
ib_mad or any other IB code present, and it will coexist with them if
they are.

In addition, it provides some facilities to ipath_ether that ib_mad
doesn't, without which ipath_ether can't support multicast, for example.

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