On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:54:23 -0800 "Sean Hefty" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >We clearly don't want to introduce OpenSM -> infiniband-diags dependency > >- OpenSM now is distributable as separate tarball. > > I'm not suggesting adding a dependency. I'm saying: > > 1. complib should be completely independent of Infiniband management on Linux. > Having it tightly coupled with the Linux IB management subnet manager is a > mistake that should be fixed. Ah! ok. > > 2. cl_nodenamemap is an IB management application specific use of more generic > complib and C-runtime libraries. A way should be found to share the > nodenamemap > source code between those apps that does not involve complib. Ok, but this sounds like we are going back to ibcommon even if by a different name. > > If we do not want to move nodenamemap into a new library, then each package > can > have its own copy. Eventually the ib-diags would not need to depend on opensm > being installed. > The idea was to make sure that any formatting changes to the config file would be consistent between opensm and the diags. So far this has not happened. However, IMHO I think it would be a step backward to have the code in 2 places. Ira _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
