[ofa-general] vendor_id in struct ib_device_attr

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:10:04PM -0700, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 13:44 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > If you are using the vendor_id to key sillicon specific optimizations
> > then I'd think it is better to look at the PCI ID rather than the
> > OUI. The OUI belongs to whoever sticks the chip on a card, and has no
> > relation to the sillicon capabilities..
> 
> >From an IBA perspective, it would be [vendor ID, device ID, revision] if
> one needs to look that "deep".

Well, who's OUI is the vendor ID? The chip makers or the board makers?
That has never really seemed clear to me, and the spec doesn't
say.

It is useless to identify the sillicon if it is the board makers, but
there is no equivilent to 'subsystem ID' like PCI has for the board..

Jason