Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management | From | Bryan O'Sullivan <> | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:05:00 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:54 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > * OpenSM wasn't usable when we wrote our SMA. We have customers > > using ours now, so we have to support it. > > Presumably you mean the ib_mad SMA - OpenSM is not an SMA.
Yes, I already mentioned that I got my terms swapped in another message.
> So what do customers care which SMA > implementation is used, as long as it formats the management packets > correctly?
Many, perhaps most right now, of our customers don't have a full IB stack loaded. That's why we have this small userspace SMA.
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