[openib-general] QoS RFC - Resend using a friendly mailer

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Tue May 30 14:17:05 PDT 2006


On 22:43 Tue 30 May     , Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > >
> > > XML style syntax is provided for the policy file.
> > 
> > Why XML? It is not too much readable and writable (by human) format.
> [EZ] Well, I agree with you but already got so many requests for XML
> that I could not resists. Maybe we could do both. If we have a nice BNF
> it would be just a matter of some yacc exercise.

I less care about a parser complexity but more about people which will
wish to edit the policy definitions with just 'vi' (or any other text
editor). And I agree that OpenSM config -> XML converter may be not so
hard to do.

Sasha



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