[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management

[Roland Dreier]

 > Three reasons.
 > 
 >       * OpenSM wasn't usable when we wrote our SMA.  We have customers
 >         using ours now, so we have to support it.

Huh?  What does OpenSM working or not have to do with the SMA?

 >       * Our SMA does some setup for the layered ethernet emulation
 >         driver.
 >       * Our SMA works without an IB stack of any kind present.

That's fine.  So then I guess the question is, why can't you use your
SMA all the time?

And does that mean that the verbs SMA doesn't support ethernet
emulation, so you can't use ethernet emulation and verbs at the same time?

 - R.