[ofa-general] Re: [RFC] OpenSM vendor layer

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 08:42 Sat 07 Feb     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
> > On 07:41 Sat 07 Feb     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >>
> >> I can see cases where rather than getting all port attr, it would be
> >> useful to get the bound port's attributes without all the rest.
> >
> > Then it is probably simpler just to use umad_get_port(). Why to bother
> > with all those OpenSM vendor junks?
> 
> Is bypassing it's vendor layer acceptable for OpenSM

Sure, so it is why I asked where and for what purpose do you need pkey
table and why is OpenSM vendor layer chosen there?

> unless we are
> going to totally remove it and go straight to umad (which I'm not
> proposing) ?

BTW, WinOF now has libibumad implemented too, it could be an option to
switch.

Sasha