On 3/9/2012 3:09 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:00:11 -0500
> Hal Rosenstock <h...@dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/6/2012 5:18 PM, Jim Foraker wrote:
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jim Foraker <forak...@llnl.gov>
>>> ---
>>>  include/ibdiag_common.h                     |    1 +
>>>  libibnetdisc/include/infiniband/ibnetdisc.h |    3 ++-
>>>  libibnetdisc/src/ibnetdisc.c                |    1 +
>>>  man/ibaddr.8                                |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibaddr.c                                |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibccconfig.c                            |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibccquery.c                             |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibdiag_common.c                         |    5 +++++
>>>  src/iblinkinfo.c                            |    3 +++
>>>  src/ibping.c                                |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibportstate.c                           |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibqueryerrors.c                         |    3 +++
>>>  src/ibroute.c                               |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibsendtrap.c                            |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibsysstat.c                             |    2 ++
>>>  src/ibtracert.c                             |    2 ++
>>>  src/mcm_rereg_test.c                        |    3 +++
>>>  src/perfquery.c                             |    2 ++
>>>  src/sminfo.c                                |    2 ++
>>>  src/smpquery.c                              |    2 ++
>>>  src/vendstat.c                              |    2 ++
>>>  21 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> Why do all these tools need mkey ? Isn't it only tools that require SMPs
>> needing this support ?
> 
> Unfortunately many of the diags issue SMP's when they should not.  To keep
> them working in the short term with mkey's this patch will have to be applied
> until an audit can be performed of every tool.  You may have noted I already
> fixed saquery with previous patches.

Yes, I saw that. It doesn't seem like it would be much work to fix the
ones that should be fixed for this (easy for me to say ;-) and IMO this
should be done prior to this rather than adding MKey in places where it
shouldn't be and then removing that later.

-- Hal

> 
> Ira
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