[Openib-windows] IB Diagnostics

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:58, Fab Tillier wrote:
> > From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:halr at voltaire.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:31 AM
> > 
> > There is a writeup of the current IB diagnostics for Linux in:
> > https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk/src/userspace/management/doc/diagtools.txt
> 
> Thanks for the link.  I think these would be very useful tools to have for the
> Windows OpenIB stack.  Would we do copy-paste-modify into the Windows
> repository, or do we want to #ifdef the differences between the platforms, and
> keep these in the Linux repository?  I'm thinking copy-paste-modify as that's
> easier, and avoids the politics of putting non-Linux code into the Linux
> repository.  

It's probably better to have parallel copies without ifdefs. Of course,
that means more maintenance.

It is probably worth looking at what is required to port them to a
Windows environment. I can help with some of this although my Windows
internals knowledge is limited.

> Are those tests in flux still, or are they pretty much done and
> static?

There hasn't been any active development on them in a while. It's been
more maintenance (occasional bug fixes). 

If a parallel copy was to be made, it would be good to closely
coordinate changes so neither side misses a change but one needs to look
at whether these lend themselves to porting to Windows first.

-- Hal