[ofw] HCA Description field format differences between Windows & Linux?

Smith, Stan stan.smith at intel.com
Thu Jun 3 09:10:25 PDT 2010


Hello,
  The Linux ibnetdiscover lists HCAs in the format 'hostname portnum HCA-description'.
Windows ibnetdiscover lists HCAs as 'HCA-description'.

I would like to enhance the Windows HCA driver, NodeDescription I believe, to include the 'hostname port' in order to provide format consistency for management tools which expect this format.

I was thinking along the lines of adding 'hostname portnum' to the NodeDescription string when the port goes Active.
Is this a good/correct choice?

Suggestions?

thanks,

stan.



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