***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] Add pkey table support to osm_get_all_port_attrs

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Fri Feb 27 04:20:59 PST 2009


On 06:40 Fri 27 Feb     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >>
> >> You could return a real pkeys_size value with table filled up to
> >> provided size.
> >>
> >> Otherwise (in case of just an error) how an user could know which pkey
> >> size to provide?
> 
> > The problem with that is that the user needs to remember how many he
> > asked for originally. Not hard but just a detail that I expect will
> > get lost.
> 
> Also, should I assume you don't care about the API inconsistency issue
> mentioned in that the user can't just request the first n ports but
> only all ports.?

Why not? num_ports pointer is in/out parameter. Could you explain what
do you mean here by API inconsistency?

Sasha



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