[openib-general] [PATCH 0/6] osm: QoS policy parser

[Yevgeny Kliteynik]

Hi Sasha.

Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> Hi Yevgeny,
> 
> On 17:01 Wed 17 Jan     , Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
>> Hi Hal
>>
>> The following series of six patches implements QoS policy file parser:
>>
>> 1. QoS parser Lex file
>> 2. QoS parser Lex-generated c file
>> 3. QoS parser grammar (Yacc) file
>> 4. QoS parser Yacc-generated grammar c and h file
>> 5. QoS parser header file that defines parse tree data structures 
>> 6. Changes in makefiles and configure.in file for compiling QoS parser files
> 
> Is there any description of proposed format and functionality?

The parser is based on QoS RFC sent by Eitan in May 2006, with a few
minor modifications. You can find the RFC here:
http://openib.org/pipermail/openib-general/2006-May/022336.html

> Also what about using human readable formats?

To me the xml-like format in the RFC looks pretty readable.
It has very limited number of keywords (tags), so it's easy 
to follow and/or to modify.

-- Yevgeny

> Sasha
>