[openib-general] [PATCH] [RFC] group devices by type

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Jan 25 14:41:02 PST 2006


Roland Dreier wrote:
>  >  enum ib_node_type {
>  > -	IB_NODE_CA 	= 1,
>  > +	IB_NODE_IB = 0x10,		/* mask for all IB node types */
>  > +	IB_NODE_CA,
>  >  	IB_NODE_SWITCH,
>  >  	IB_NODE_ROUTER
>  >  };
> 
> Is there anywhere that uses this value to compare against the values
> that the IB spec uses in the NodeInfo record?

I didn't notice anything that assumed the values assigned to the enum members, 
but I can think of several reasons how I would miss that.  I guess an easy 
sanity check is to change the value assigned to IB_NODE_CA and see if anything 
stops working.

- Sean



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