[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] infiniband-diags/ibtracert: print lids in decimal form

[Ira Weiny]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:07:20 +0000
Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:

> On 13:41 Sat 17 Nov     , Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > 
> > Also, this same kind of unification is needed for GID's. They should
> > always be printed and accepted in IPv6 format, not 128 bit
> > decimal.
> 
> Not sure this was discussed explicitly (probably it should be). My
> feeling based on the feedback from people (emails, opened bugs, etc)
> was that desired *IDs formats are decimal for LIDs, LMC and hexadecimal
> for GUIDs, MLIDs.

This sounds good.  Add comma separated decimal for Directed paths.  (for
example from opensm.log output "Initial path: 0,1,2")

> 
> I don't remember that GID was discussed at all and I think that Jason's
> proposition about ipv6 format is first here.
> 
> Any other opinions? Should *IDs formats be formalized at all? Thoughts?
>

Yes I believe ID's should be formalized.

Ira