[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] ipoib: send creation parameters when doing send-only join

[Roland Dreier]

 > IBA states for a MC group to be present there must be at least one
 > "full" member (sender and receiver). So it's not only just senders
 > (SendOnlyNonMembers) but also only just receivers (NonMembers) which
 > won't cause group creation.

Sure, but the same question still applies.  More pedantically, if there
are only non-members and send-only non-members of a group, why would we
expect it to be created?

The patch in question wouldn't even work if we actually used the
send-only join status in IPoIB.

 - R.