[ofa-general] Re: ibsim parsing question

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 23:43 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 13:40 Mon 12 May     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > 
> > Right; that's what I meant by option 1. 
> 
> True.
> 
> > Also, it's not really unknown options since it's part of the
> > NodeDescription.
> > 
> > This works as long as the "known" options (currently s= and w=) are not
> > part of NodeDescription. It works for the real life use case that
> > started this.
> 
> That is correct, but we know that ibsim parser doesn't parse
> NodeDescription in those (port related) lines, so in such "worst" cases
> when 's=' and/or 'w=' strings are used in NodeDescription this could be
> just filtered out from ibnetdiscovery file.

That's why I termed this approach a workaround and it does limit the
NodeDescription in ways not limited by the IBA spec.

Is this worth mentioning in the README or some other doc for ibsim ?

-- Hal

> Sasha