Smith, Stan wrote on Thu, 3 Jun 2010 at 09:10:25 > > Hello, > The Linux ibnetdiscover lists HCAs in the format 'hostname portnum > HCA-description'. > Windows ibnetdiscover lists HCAs as 'HCA-description'. > > I would like to enhance the Windows HCA driver, NodeDescription I > believe, to include the 'hostname port' in order to provide format > consistency for management tools which expect this format. > > I was thinking along the lines of adding 'hostname portnum' to the > NodeDescription string when the port goes Active. > Is this a good/correct choice?
How do the Linux drivers set this? Isn't there a local MAD you issue to the HCA to set the node description? Is the NodeDescription different for each port of an HCA? > Suggestions? I would mimic whatever the Linux code does for consistency, in how it pushes the node description into the HCA. Look at __read_machine_name in bus_driver.c for how the hostname was read from the registry. Heck, you can even just reference node_desc (it's declared as an extern char in al_smi.c) Perhaps push it into the HCA when the SMI client gets initialized? -Fab _______________________________________________ ofw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ofw
