[openib-general] problems on device/ports initialization

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Wed Sep 21 12:36:29 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:28, Shirley Ma wrote:
> If for any reason, some ports of the IB device are not ready during
> device initialization, none of the ports on that device are being
> initialized. (see ib_mad_device_init()). In other words the device is
> not usable by this limitation. Also, once the unready ports are
> avaliable later, IB should allow these ports to be initialized later.
> Any objection?  

Is there some additional indication after the IB device is detected
which indicates the ports are "ready" ?

-- Hal




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