[openib-general] IB diagnostics problems (OFED-1.1-rc5)

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Mon Sep 18 05:42:06 PDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 07:40, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Mirko Benz <mirko.benz at xiranet.com>:
> > Subject: Re: IB diagnostics problems (OFED-1.1-rc5)
> > 
> > Hi Hal,
> > 
> > This was a default/build all OFED install. Either we should place these 
> > tools under ../ofed/sbin or make it work for every body. At least a 
> > error message that umad access failed would be required.
> 
> I don't think opening umad for regular user by default is a good idea.
> And isn't sbin for static binaries?
> 
> With regards to diagnostics - I think proper exit status is reported,
> so I expect if you set up shell accordingly you'll get the diagnostic printout.

I don't think so for this case.

> Printing stuff on stderr/stdout might interfere with activating these from
> scripts, so I'm not sure it's a good idea. Hal?

The ones Mirko cited currently are scripts rather than binaries.

-- Hal






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