[ofa-general] Re: [query] SMI nodeinfo, port_info structures

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Keshetti Mahesh <k_mahesh85 at yahoo.co.in>:
> Subject: Re: [query] SMI nodeinfo, port_info structures
> 
> >SMI has nothing to do with those SM attributes.
> 
> Yes you are right. SMI has nothing to do with them right now. But if some other
> hardware vendor wants to implement the SMA in the host software (like ipath) in
> future he again needs to implement those structures (nodeinfo and port_info,
> attributes of SM ) in his driver.
> we can avoid this situation (duplicate declarations of same structre) by
> declaring the above mentioned structures in the core layer.

Why not wait till this actually happens?

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MST