[ofa-general] IB/core: Enhance SMI for switch support

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:24, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Sorry, I lost this one in my queue.
> 
> However when I was thinking about applying it, I couldn't help but
> wonder whether it was a good idea or not.  Is there any prospect of an
> in-tree driver that would use the code?

I'm not sure; I've heard rumors of other OpenIB based switches.

> Current Mellanox switches do
> intermediate hop SMI handling in firmware, so a Mellanox switch driver
> wouldn't use this code.  And I'm not sure we can justify this change
> (which after all carries some risk)

The risk is primarily on the switch side, rather than the CA/router
side, right ? So isn't the downside of this minimal ?

-- Hal

> just to make it easier for baymicrosystems's proprietary driver.
> 
>  - R.