[ofa-general] RE: [ofw] saquery & osm vendor AL - ca_names missing from osm_vendor_t ?

[Sean Hefty]

>I don't remember the exact details but at the time saquery was first written,
>ibmad/ibumad did not have all the functionality I needed and the OpenSM vendor
>library did.  That may no longer be the case and if not then I would support
>converting to using those other libraries.

libibumad does require the user to provide the address to the SA.  Providing a
libibumad helper function to fill out ib_mad_addr_t for the local SA seems
reasonable.  I guess we can look at what it would take to convert it in detail
to see if anything is still missing from the lower libraries.

- Sean