On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Ira Weiny wrote: | > And what about width and other potentially tunable port parameters? | | I don't think width is "tunable" via the spec. The force_link_speed option | was a non-standard work around for potentially bad hardware. I was trying to | avoid going down the non-standard path too much.
There's infiniband hardware that can't do 1X, also. Yes, it's non-compliant, but it exists. 4X-only mode can be set (and reported correctly) by the tools as an extension in the same manner as the speed extension, so it may as well be handled the same way, if you are going to fix the one. Dave Olson [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
