On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:06:12 -0700
"Hefty, Sean" <sean.he...@intel.com> wrote:

> commit 1344cb3feacafc462440dabfa5997c5205486d83 added support for FDR10 in a 
> way that is not compatible with Windows support.  Windows does not use files 
> to read attribute information.
> 

Ok, I think you meant commit 1344cb3feacafc462440dabfa5997c5205486d83

> I will probably need to obtain the necessary information using ibverbs on 
> windows by reading port attributes.  I don't think FDR10 support is available 
> through ibverbs on linux yet, but would this be acceptable?  Is there some 
> other way that you'd like to handle this?  The other option I can think of is 
> moving is_fdr10() and sys_read_string() out of ibstat.c and into a linux 
> specific file, so that windows can provide its own implementation.  Thoughts?
> 

Does this mean "ibstatus" does not work on Windows?

I was contemplating getting rid of ibstat as ibstatus (a script which uses 
sysfs exclusively) gave the same information without the dependency on 
libibumad.  With this patch we were trying to not break libibumad's ABI with 
this addition.

How are you proposing the addition to ibverbs?  It seems this would break ABI 
there.

Does windows have sysfs like capabilities which would make the separate layer 
clean?

Ira

> - Sean


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Ira Weiny
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Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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