[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/3] ibnetdiscover library "libibnetdisc"

[Ira Weiny]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:27:41 +0200
Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:

> Hi Ira,
> 
> On 16:38 Thu 20 Nov     , Ira Weiny wrote:
> > The following 3 patches implement "libibnetdisc" which provides the
> > functionality of ibnetdiscover in a C library.
> > 
> > I mentioned this to Sasha at the last Sonoma conference and posted the bulk of
> > this code to the list a few months ago.  This libary is still providing the 85%
> > performance speed up of iblinkinfo.pl on our clusters.
> 
> This is great!
> 
> Do not you think this library should be rather part of infiniband-diags,
> rather than separate package/management sub-project? Personally I would
> prefer to have this as part of infiniband-diags.

No, I would like to see it be a stand alone library.  Currently
infiniband-diags does not provide any library functionality and simply depends
on the libraries provided by the rest of the management tree.  Don't you think
this is a good model to follow?

Ira