[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] Create a new library "libibnetdisc"

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Ira,

On 16:09 Fri 27 Jun     , Ira Weiny wrote:
> I have been wanted to do this for some time and ever since mentioning it to
> Sasha at Sonoma have worked on it in my "spare" time...  ;-)
> 
> This creates an ibnetdiscover library.  It seems as time goes on that more and
> more people have tried to "print" something from ibnetdiscover to get that data
> out with some parser.  I figure it should be available from a library.  I have
> only written test programs "ibnetdisctest" and "iblinkinfotest" to prototype
> performance.  Also the interface is a bit rought around the edges but all the
> data is there.
> 
> At this point I have some pretty good results from iblinkinfotest (~80%
> faster!)
> 
> So I wanted to get opinions on where this should go.

Do you think it should be a separate package? I thought rather about
having it in infiniband-diags so the tools there will use it.

Sasha