[ofa-general] Re: initial set of "direct" SDP tests in netperf

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: initial set of "direct" SDP tests in netperf
> 
> >Surely too late for OFED 1.2, but we can reopen this afterwards.
> >
> >Are there disadvantages to using protocol instead of family?
> >Would this change present a problem for people using e.g. getprotobyname
> >to get the protocol number?
> 
> True, at that level it would be trading one problem - AF_INET_SDP not in 
> getaddrinfo()) into a different problem - IPPROTO_SDP not in 
> getprotobyname().
> 
> However, I think that is the "better" problem - SDP is a "protocol" not 
> an address family.  (Again, based on what little I understand about 
> SDP).

I see why this makes sens for you, but in what sense is it a "better" problem?

> Having said that, at this point, is the die not already cast?

For OFED 1.2, it is. But hopefully it's not the last one.

> Probably worth asking for opinions in netdev.  I'm sure there would be 
> at least a couple available there.

As I said, I did that already.

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