While Jason is correct that I am working to deprecate the scripts this bug
still exists in the 1.5 branch.
Thanks for pointing this out. As Open Fabrics is doing an additional 1.5
release I will attempt to fix before that release.
Thanks,
Ira
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:22:32 -0800
pierre orzechowski <pierre.e.orzechow...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a customer reporting an issue with the "ibswitches" command part
> of the infiniband-diags package.
> If the switch description includes the string "base" anywhere, then the
> match operation in the awk section of ibwitches does not behave as
> expected and output is garbled.
>
> Example :
>
> [root@slcc09sw-ib2 tmp]# grep Switch ibnetdisc.out
> Switch 36 "S-002128468ee1a0a0" # "SUN DCS 36P QDR basesw-ib3
> 10.242.48.23" enhanced port 0 lid 1 lmc 0
> Switch 36 "S-0021286cc8a3a0a0" # "SUN DCS 46P QDR slcc09sw-ib3
> 10.242.48.24" enhanced port 0 lid 12 lmc 0
> [root@slcc09sw-ib2 tmp]# ibswitches ibnetdisc.out
> Switch : 0x002128468ee1a0a0 ports 36 "SUN DCS 36P QDR base port 0 lid 1
> lmc 0
> Switch : 0x0021286cc8a3a0a0 ports 36 "SUN DCS 46P QDR slcc09sw-ib3
> 10.242.48.24" enhanced port 0 lid 12 lmc 0
>
> The 1 liner workaround we have is to replace in red :
> echo "$text" | awk '
> /^Switch/ {
> l=$0
> desc=substr(l, match(l, "#[ \t]*")+RLENGTH)
> pi=match(desc, "port 0.*")
> pinfo=substr(desc, pi)
> desc=substr(desc, 1, pi-2)
> type="base"
> ti=match(desc, type)
> ...
>
> With
>
> echo "$text" | awk '
> /^Switch/ {
> l=$0
> desc=substr(l, match(l, "#[ \t]*")+RLENGTH)
> pi=match(desc, "port 0.*")
> pinfo=substr(desc, pi)
> desc=substr(desc, 1, pi-2)
> type="\base\"
> ti=match(desc, type)
> ...
>
> Thanks for your help in reviewing this potential defect.
> Apologies if posting to the wrong mailing list.
>
> Best regards,
> Pierre Orzechowski
>
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