[openib-general] Re: [PATCH applied] return -ENOPROTOOPT on an unsupported socket option

Tom Duffy thomas.duffy.99 at alumni.brown.edu
Mon Dec 19 14:50:57 PST 2005


On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:44 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>
> Make more ltp tests pass: return -ENOPROTOOPT on an unsupported  
> socket option.

This one is a bit controversial.  We had the discussion in the past  
about doing this, but the problem is that some applications won't run  
if a particular sockopt is not supported on SDP.  Some socket opts  
don't make much sense on SDP/Infiniband, others work as intended.

-tduffy



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