[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Opensm support for external routing engines

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Al,

On 13:38 Thu 18 Jun     , Al Chu wrote:
> 
> I agree with this on principle, however, we already support a plugin
> system that allows users to develop proprietary perfmgr plugins. So I
> feel that we already are down this path.

It is not about allowing or not - I thought about our support for doing
such things.

> Is the primary issue that this module "imports" new behavior into
> opensm? I don't know the perfmgr plugin code that well, but my
> understanding is that you can "import new behavior" into opensm via the
> perfmgr plugin code too?  So what is really different??

Right, nothing different. And this is exactly my point - why yet another
plugin interface is needed?

Sasha