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

Fab Tillier ftillier at silverstorm.com
Wed Sep 14 22:43:45 PDT 2005


> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rolandd at cisco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:18 PM
> 
>     Fab> To me, non volatile in this context means something like
>     Fab> using the system name.
> 
> Huh??  To me non-volatile means not changing.

What I meant is that having the users be able to set anything they want at
runtime isn't non-volatile.  One could argue that the system name is volatile,
since it can be changed, but how often do people change their system names once
the system is setup?

Just ignore me if I don't make sense. :)

- Fab




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