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[David Brean]

> On Jun 5, 2018, at 12:35 PM, Coulter, Susan K <skc at lanl.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
> Confusion reigns !!  :)
> 
> Probably my fault.
> I sent a separate email to David Brean - at the request of the XWG - to insure that Oracle was aware that ibutils will be deprecated and removed.
> Somehow that got translated to infiniband-diags.
> 

Your questions about ibutils were clear.  Perhaps I over-reacted to “obsolete” used in the other email.  :)

> To be clear:
> Infiniband-diags >is< maintained by Ira Weiny and exists on github.
> ibutils is an old set of tools not updated since 2015/16 timeframe - and no one is supporting it currently.
> ibutils2 is provided by Mellanox via MlnxOFED and is supported, although slightly different.
> There was concern that these tools were proprietary, however, my last download of MlnxOFED >does< include the source for these tools.
> 

Oracle uses ibdiagnet(1) and it’s also available in ibutils2.

-David

> HTH
> 
> 
>> On Jun 5, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com <mailto:dledford at redhat.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 6/5/2018 12:56 AM, David Brean wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 4, 2018, at 1:06 PM, Weiny, Ira <ira.weiny at intel.com <mailto:ira.weiny at intel.com>
>>>> <mailto:ira.weiny at intel.com <mailto:ira.weiny at intel.com>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The maintainers file is not formatted correctly
>>>>  
>>>> Also the gitweb page has some repos which are obsoleted.  Libibmad and
>>>> infiniband-diags for example…
>>>>  
>>>> Not sure how best to point people at github for those.
>>>>  
>>> 
>>> To OFA, should OFA seek a replacement maintainer for infiniband-diags
>>> that already exists on github?
>> 
>> Is it infiniband-diags that's not maintained, or are you thinking of our
>> recent discussions about ibutils?
>> 
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