[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] opensm/osm_node.h: osm_node_get_num_physp description fix

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Wed Feb 4 12:59:25 PST 2009


On 15:50 Wed 04 Feb     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
> > On 15:03 Wed 04 Feb     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >> >
> >> > For switch it will be an actual number of allocated physical ports
> >> > (struct osm_physp) - port 0 olus number of external ports. For non
> >> > switch nodes entry '0' is not used.
> >>
> >> Right. In my terms, physical is another name for an external port and
> >> port 0 is not a physical (external) port so I think we're quibbling
> >> about words. What do you think it should say ?
> >
> > I don't really have a good opinion :(. Maybe something like:
> >
> >  *      Returns the number of osm_physp ports allocated for this for node
> >  *      (for switches it is number of external physical ports plus port
> >  *      0 and number of physical ports + 1 for non-switch nodes).
> 
> Fine with me. Let me know if you want a patch for this.

If we are out of ideas then yes, send a new patch (still hope that you
will find better description during this... :)).

Sasha



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