[ofa-general] What is the purpose of libosmvendor?

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 09:54 Tue 14 Jul     , Mike Heinz wrote:
> Reviewing the OFED stack, it appears that the appropriate method for user applications to access fabric information such as path records and port guids - but the name of the library itself leaves me a little nonplussed, rather than access to fabric information, it sounds like it's meant to provide a proprietary interface to the SM.
> 
> Is this correct?

This was the case some days. Now it is mostly legacy stuff. OpenSM uses
ibumad vendor layer and WinOF still use AL. If win guys will switch to
ibumad (WinOF has libibumad implementation already). This layer could be
removed.

Sasha