On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:23:48 -0800 Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marcinis...@qlogic.com> wrote:
> The patch has been reworked so that the fields used are no longer reserved. > > The QLogic PMA has a vendor specific capability. We are using the top > 2 bits of the CapabilityMask2 to indicate the behavior is available. > > By not setting the bit 2 in the CapabilityMask, we are indicating that > other PMA clients should ignore CapabilityMask2. I'm confused, does this mean you never plan to support any capabilities which will be indicated in CapabilityMask2? There are only 2 bits left in CapabilityMask at this time, with a proposal already submitted to use one of them. I think it would be better to suggest to the IBTA to either A) reserve some bits for vendor specific use in CapabilityMask2 or better yet B) suggest this as a standard use of those bits. Another option, if you don't want this included as part of the standard is to use the Vendor specific class to communicate this information. Am I missing something? Ira > > As such no other tools should be confused by our setting of the 2 bits > (because they should not look in CapabilityMask2 anyway). > > We purposely do not set the PortXmitWait CapabilityMask bit, this > driver does not implement that capability. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Ira Weiny Math Programmer/Computer Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Lab 925-423-8008 wei...@llnl.gov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
