[ofa-general] vendor_id in struct ib_device_attr

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:23 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Well, who's OUI is the vendor ID? The chip makers or the board makers?
> That has never really seemed clear to me, and the spec doesn't
> say.

As you point out, that isn't stated in the spec. In practice, the OUI
used for vendor ID relates to the chip. I suppose that might not be the
case if there were some uniquification needed to be detected by the
driver. The board vendor's OUI is used in the GUIDs.

-- Hal