Hello! Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Re: [openib-general] Some Missing Features from mthca/user MAD access": > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:01, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > The simplest approach I think is, keep some file open, when its closed > > > (which happends automatically when the process dies) clean the is_sm bit. > > > > This does seem to be the simplest approach. However, there are two issues > > I'm still trying to figure out: > > > > - Where should the file be? Do we really want to create a bunch of issm > > files in /dev that only support open() and close()? I can't think > > of anything > > better, though.
I wander if sysfs can be used for this somehow. > > There may be other is_xxx files too at some point. It *is* possible to reuse the umad files for this. Pass command either with an ioctl, or write/read to a special offset (force opensm to always access offset 0), or reuse some flag for open (like O_SYNC ?) ... Ugh :) . MST _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
