[openib-general] gen2_basic patch 5/10: select a valid port number

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: gen2_basic patch 5/10: select a valid port number
> 
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 21:16, Robert Walsh wrote:
> > Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 20:28, Robert Walsh wrote:
> > >> gen2_basic - select a valid port number
> > >>
> > >> Port numbers start at 1, not 0.
> > > 
> > > True for CA and routers but not switches.
> > 
> > Yeah.  Does anyone run gen2_basic on switches, though?  I assumed it was
> > HCA-centric.
> 
> Yes, that appears to be the scope but I'm not 100% sure.

Its easy to get linux running on a switch, so why not? You just
need to write a low level driver that cn send/receve MADs.
We did run a gen1 port on a switch at some point, and someone might want to
do it again.

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