[ofa-general] Re: [RFC][PATCH] ibnetdiscover: remove report of max hops discovered.
Sasha Khapyorsky
sashak at voltaire.com
Tue May 12 12:17:26 PDT 2009
On 18:01 Wed 06 May , Ira Weiny wrote:
> The number reported as "max hops" from ibnetdiscover can change depending on
> the algorithm used to discover the fabric. As Hal says in the message below
> using this number is therefore dangerous.
>
> If no one is currently using this number I propose the patch below which
> removes the "max hops discovered" from the output.
I don't know about usages, it is rather additional ibnetdiscover info
(similar to date/time printout). But it was nice to have - it provides
some idea about what ibnetdiscover did. If you want to remove it anyway,
at least print it in verbose mode ('-v').
Sasha
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