Re: [PATCH v2] ofa_kernel/infiniband node description patch

2010-06-16 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 23:20, Mike Heinz wrote: Well, the feedback from you was about making sure the description was null terminated. Actually, that feedback was from me :). This *is* settable through sysfs, and still is even when the patch is applied. The problem is that the current

RE: [PATCH v2] ofa_kernel/infiniband node description patch

2010-06-16 Thread Mike Heinz
Jack Morgerstein wrote: Actually, that feedback was from me :). Oops. Well, that explains why Jason was confused. Sorry Jason. Actually, you will still need the install-script setting. If you have several HCA's of the same type installed on a single host, they will all get the same node

[PATCH v2] ofa_kernel/infiniband node description patch

2010-06-15 Thread Mike Heinz
Currently, the node description of an HCA is set to a description of the HCA hardware or, at boot time, to a brief string containing the hostname of the node the HCA is installed in. The problem is that if the host's DHCP server is slow, the node description may be set before the hostname,

RE: [PATCH v2] ofa_kernel/infiniband node description patch

2010-06-15 Thread Mike Heinz
Heinz Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org; Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ofa_kernel/infiniband node description patch On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:35:35PM -0500, Mike Heinz wrote: This updated patch incorporates feedback from Jason Gunthorpe and Or Gerlitz. It does? :) I admit this is puzzling