From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:31:05 +0000 Subject: Re: RFC: InfiniBand hotplug agent Message-Id: <20060323233105.GB31490@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:11:02AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Greg> Why does your drivers care about the hostname? The kernel > Greg> already knows this information anyway... > > As I explained before, this script puts the hostname in the InfiniBand > "node description," which is retrieved by various IB network > management tools. It makes the output of these tools much easier to > read, since you can see things like "node1 (CA)" and "node2 (CA)" in > the network management tools instead of just two copies of "CA". Ick, the kernel is then printing that data back out somewhere else? I really don't want to know... :) > Yes, I could modify the driver to look at system_utsname and pick a > way to format that. But that suffers from the problem of putting > policy in the kernel (who picks the format for node descriptions?), > although that's minor. And we still have the problem of what to do > before the hostname is set -- put "(none)" in our node description? > > Anyway, do you think just having this node description setting in the > kernel is the best way to go? I think that your proposed solution will not work on the current round of "enterprise" distros, so I don't think it is a real "solution". As for a proposed one, I have no idea, sorry. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel