Re: [PATCH] libibmad: Add ib_resolve_noderecord_via API

[Sarat Kakarla <sarat.kakarla-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Ira & Hal,

I have talked to my management about this wrapper and decided to add it to our code instead of libibmad, so for now I am dropping the merge request.

Thanks
Sarat


On 2/12/2013 3:49 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:36:11 -0800
> Sarat Kakarla <sarat.kakarla-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 2/12/2013 3:28 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:39:44 -0800
>>> Sarat Kakarla <sarat.kakarla-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Add ib_resolve_noderecord_via wrapper similar to ib_resolve_portid_str_via
>>>
>>> I have a more fundamental question: Do you have a use case for this?
>>>
>>> Ira
>>>
>> The main purpose of this wrapper to make ib_resolve_noderecord_via as a single API call to resolve a node by looking at node record.
>
> But this does not actually "resolve" anything.  AFAICT it just returns if a NodeRecord exists.
>
> Ira
>
>>  From oracle's point of view since we have
>> already included the name and signature of this ib_resolve_noderecord_via in our executable we thought it would be helpful to have this wrapper so that we can just drop the new
>> library without changing/rebuilding our binaries.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sarat
>>
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