On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Andrew Friedley wrote:
Yes, I very much care about backward compatibility of the openib name and MCA parameters... This is, as I see it, the biggest issue with changing the name. Stuff like this has to work:mpirun --mca btl openib,self ... mpirun --mca btl_openib_foo 32 ...Ah that could be fun, do you have ideas or should I try to figure this out myself?
I was kinda assuming that it would be some kind of aliasing in the MCA parameter engine...? I dunno -- I hadn't really thought about this much.
-- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems
