[openib-general] Handling SM class (SMInfo vs. other queries)

Mon Oct 25 09:39:36 PDT 2004

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 18:43, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Sean> I think I'm missing something here.  I thought that the
>     Sean> snoop_mad entry point was the solution to this issue.
> 
> Except as currently defined, it doesn't provide a way for the
> low-level driver to give back a response -- it just lets the low-level
> driver steal MADs like locally generated traps.  There's no way to
> handle SMA, PMA, BMA and vendor-specific requests etc.
> 
> My suggestion basically amounts to expanding snoop_mad to handle
> everything.  But then there's no need for the process_mad entry point
> (snoop_mad becomes the interface).  So we might as well get rid of
> snoop_mad since I think the process_mad name is more descriptive.

OK. It's pretty straightforward to change the MAD layer to use PLM
rather than snoop MAD (and remove snoop_mad (undo that patch)). Should I
post the changes ?

-- Hal