On Jul 17, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Nathan Hjelm <hje...@lanl.gov> wrote:

> As Ralph suggested you need to pass the --level or -l option to see all the 
> variables. --level 9 will print everything. If you think there are variables 
> everyday users should see you are welcome to change them to OPAL_INFO_LVL_1. 
> We are trying to avoid moving too many variables to this info level.

I think George might have a point here, though.  He was specifically asking 
about the --all option, right?

I think it might be reasonable for "ompi_info --all" to actually show *all* MCA 
params (up through level 9).

Thoughts?

>> Btw, something is wrong i the following output. I have an "btl = sm,self" in 
>> my .openmpi/mca-params.conf so I should not even see the BTL TCP parameters.
> 
> I think ompi_info has always shown all the variables despite what you have 
> the selection variable set (at least in some cases). We now just display 
> everything in all cases. An additional benefit to the updated code is that if 
> you set a selection variable through the environment (OMPI_MCA_btl=self,sm) 
> it no longer appears as unset in ompi_info. The old code unset all selection 
> variables in order to ensure all parameters got printed (very annoying but 
> necessary).

Yes, I think I like this new behavior better, too.

Does anyone violently disagree?

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