Re: fprintf stderr in libibverbs

[Roland Dreier <rdreier-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

 > My main goal would be to remove prints from the library in common
 > cases like no IB drivers loaded, no devices present, or no
 > permissions. I have an app where the prints are inconvient.
 > 
 > What I was thinking was to return these cases via errno (ENOSYS,
 > ENODEV, EPERM) in ibv_get_device_list. Do you think that is OK?

Yes, that makes sense I guess.

 > int ibv_get_device_list_ex(struct ibv_device ***devices,int *num_devices, 
 >                            const char **warning_msg);

Are there that many cases where the output is important enough and
likely enough that it's worth a new API to get it out when stderr
doesn't suffice?

 - R.
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