[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 9 of 18] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 08:41 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> Could you please explain why is this useful? Users could not care less - they
> never have to touch an SMA.

We have customers who use our driver who do not want a full IB stack
present, for example in embedded environments.

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