[ofw] Re: [ofa-general] RE: complib and cl_nodenamemap

[Ira Weiny]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:54:23 -0800
"Sean Hefty" <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:

> >We clearly don't want to introduce OpenSM -> infiniband-diags dependency
> >- OpenSM now is distributable as separate tarball.
> 
> I'm not suggesting adding a dependency.  I'm saying:
> 
> 1. complib should be completely independent of Infiniband management on Linux.
> Having it tightly coupled with the Linux IB management subnet manager is a
> mistake that should be fixed.

Ah! ok.

> 
> 2. cl_nodenamemap is an IB management application specific use of more generic
> complib and C-runtime libraries.  A way should be found to share the nodenamemap
> source code between those apps that does not involve complib.

Ok, but this sounds like we are going back to ibcommon even if by a different
name.

> 
> If we do not want to move nodenamemap into a new library, then each package can
> have its own copy.  Eventually the ib-diags would not need to depend on opensm
> being installed.
> 

The idea was to make sure that any formatting changes to the config file would
be consistent between opensm and the diags.  So far this has not happened.
However, IMHO I think it would be a step backward to have the code in 2
places.

Ira