On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:54 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > * OpenSM wasn't usable when we wrote our SMA. We have customers
> > using ours now, so we have to support it.
>
> Presumably you mean the ib_mad SMA - OpenSM is not an SMA.
Yes, I already mentioned that I got my terms swapped in another message.
> So what do customers care which SMA
> implementation is used, as long as it formats the management packets
> correctly?
Many, perhaps most right now, of our customers don't have a full IB
stack loaded. That's why we have this small userspace SMA.
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