From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sarat Kakarla Subject: Re: [PATCH] libibmad: Add ib_resolve_noderecord_via API Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:59:31 -0800 Message-ID: <5122A443.9080404@oracle.com> References: <511AA890.8050106@oracle.com> <20130212152859.b62c4d6df7bd5bf0a393fa4a@llnl.gov> <511AD1EB.8070807@oracle.com> <20130212154949.2ff378f25c6cce7e6119137c@llnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130212154949.2ff378f25c6cce7e6119137c-i2BcT+NCU+M@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ira Weiny Cc: HANLIN.QIAN-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, "Jia Shi (E-mail)" , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.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 wrote: > >> >> >> On 2/12/2013 3:28 PM, Ira Weiny wrote: >>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:39:44 -0800 >>> Sarat Kakarla 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 >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in >> the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html