[ofa-general] RE: [Bug 465] IPoIB CM HA fails after several hours of failures

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 01:51 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] RE: [Bug 465] IPoIB CM HA fails after several hours of failures
> > 
> > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 18:26, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > How about fixing this tool to provide a sane,
> > > > 
> > > > I think it is sane output.
> 
> Using a propretary language when there is CSV, XML, RELAX NG,
> and asking everyone to write parsers to it is not sane.

Under diags/scripts you can find couple of parser examples. I think this
format is pretty easy to understand - actually it is nodes followed by
list of their ports (with remotes).

> > > It sure is
> > > 1. undocumented

This is true and real disadvantage.

> > > 2. hard to parse

Many scripts are using this.

> > How much time did you spend trying to understand it ? Quite a number of
> > others have figured this out.
> 
> I'm speaking about parsing it automatically in a script.

No problem, if you are going to propose better format let's discuss.

Sasha