On 05/12/2015 10:14 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> It's not a warning or an error if libibverbs cannot find a userspace
> driver for kernel devices.  Indeed, returning a num_devices of is
> sufficient -- the middleware shouldn't be unconditionally printing out
> stderr message; let the upper layer application do that (if it wants
> to).
> 
> For debugging purposes, if the environment variable IBV_SHOW_WARNINGS
> is set (to any value), warnings will be emitted to stderr if a
> corresponding userspace driver cannot be found for a kernel device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres <[email protected]>
> ---
>  man/ibv_get_device_list.3 | 6 ++++++
>  src/init.c                | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/ibv_get_device_list.3 b/man/ibv_get_device_list.3
> index 16cc1a0..96de554 100644
> --- a/man/ibv_get_device_list.3
> +++ b/man/ibv_get_device_list.3
> @@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ Client code should open all the devices it intends to use 
> with
>  Once it frees the array with
>  .B ibv_free_device_list()\fR,
>  it will be able to use only the open devices; pointers to unopened devices 
> will no longer be valid.
> +.P
> +Setting the environment variable
> +.BR IBV_SHOW_WARNINGS
> +will cause warnings to be emitted to stderr if a kernel verbs device
> +is discovered, but no corresponding userspace driver can be found for
> +it.
>  .SH "SEE ALSO"
>  .BR ibv_fork_init (3),
>  .BR ibv_get_device_name (3),
> diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
> index d0e4b1c..dbdd795 100644
> --- a/src/init.c
> +++ b/src/init.c
> @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ out:
>                    next_dev = sysfs_dev ? sysfs_dev->next : NULL;
>            sysfs_dev;
>            sysfs_dev = next_dev, next_dev = sysfs_dev ? sysfs_dev->next : 
> NULL) {
> -             if (!sysfs_dev->have_driver) {
> +             if (!sysfs_dev->have_driver && getenv("IBV_SHOW_WARNINGS")) {
>                       fprintf(stderr, PFX "Warning: no userspace 
> device-specific "
>                               "driver found for %s\n", sysfs_dev->sysfs_path);
>                       if (statically_linked)
> 

This has been applied, thanks.

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Doug Ledford <[email protected]>
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