[openib-general] Re: port_num

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: port_num
> 
> Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> >How about something along the lines of stating that the 
> >transport specific CM is responsible for translating 0 to
> >a number that does not conflict with the host stack, and
> >then leave the details to be implemented as required.
> 
> That doesn't quite work.  If there are multiple transports, you want the 
> same translation.

Most applications don't care. How about we implement this simple thing, and
let ULPs override it by passing port !=0 if they want?

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies