[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] Allow setting of NodeDescription

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Sun Nov 27 21:35:28 PST 2005


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rolandd at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow setting of NodeDescription
> 
>     Michael> Roland, do you plan to check this in?
> 
> No, I dropped it for the moment because I couldn't come up with a good
> way to handle the window from when the IB port is brought up until
> userspace has a chance to set the node description.

What about simply initializing this to some string like "uninitialized"?
This indicates in a pretty clear way that user needs to recheck the node
later.


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MST



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