Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932318AbWH1BlK (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:41:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932320AbWH1BlK (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:41:10 -0400 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:49292 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932318AbWH1BlJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:41:09 -0400 Message-ID: <44F249B4.501@pathscale.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:41:08 -0700 From: Robert Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 20 Roland Dreier wrote: > 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. Well, either you think it is or it isn't. We like it: it's easier than pointing customers at something in /sys. Regards, Robert. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/