To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Robert Walsh <rjwalsh@pathscale.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22 of 23] IB/ipath - print warning if LID not acquired within one minute
References: <44EF6053.4010006@pathscale.com>
	<20060826193126.GF21168@mellanox.co.il>
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:25:56 -0700
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    Michael> Looks like your devices are all single-port. With a multi
    Michael> port device it is quite common to have one port down.

My reading of the patch is that it warns if the link is up physically
but does not come up logically.  Which would still be reasonable for a
multi-port device.

But I am still wondering about when this is really useful.

 - R.
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