Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030217AbWCWIsX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:48:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030224AbWCWIsX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:48:23 -0500 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:6541 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030217AbWCWIsW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:48:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 9 of 18] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, greg@kroah.com, openib-general@openib.org In-Reply-To: <20060323064113.GC9841@mellanox.co.il> References: <20060323064113.GC9841@mellanox.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:48:21 -0800 Message-Id: <1143103701.6411.21.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 539 Lines: 15 On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 08:41 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Could you please explain why is this useful? Users could not care less - they > never have to touch an SMA. We have customers who use our driver who do not want a full IB stack present, for example in embedded environments.