[openib-general] osm

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Thu Dec 23 14:35:12 PST 2004


    Tom> Or will it just open the device based off of major minor from
    Tom> /sys/class/infiniband_mad/umad0/dev?

Looks like right now it is hard coded in libumad/umad.c.  However
there's no way for userspace to open a device just based off
major/minor -- you need a device node.

    Tom> Roland, do you absolutely need the KERNEL="umad*",
    Tom> NAME="infiniband/%k" rule in udev?

I'm not a udev expert by any stretch of the imagination, but how else
does udev know to create devices?

 - R.



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