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

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:54 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> >       * OpenSM wasn't usable when we wrote our SMA.  We have customers
> >         using ours now, so we have to support it.
> 
> Presumably you mean the ib_mad SMA - OpenSM is not an SMA.

Yes, I already mentioned that I got my terms swapped in another message.

> So what do customers care which SMA
> implementation is used, as long as it formats the management packets
> correctly?

Many, perhaps most right now, of our customers don't have a full IB
stack loaded.  That's why we have this small userspace SMA.

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