Re: [PATCH v2] infiniband-diags: add rdma-ndd daemon

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On 10/31/2014 2:27 PM, ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> rdma-ndd is a system daemon which watches the procfs hostname file for updates.
> 
> Upon detecting an update it will update the Node Descriptions of the RDMA
> devices in the system.

What is the effect of this on RoCE and IWARP adapters ? While they
populate node_desc in sysfs, I don't think they support
IB_DEVICE_MODIFY_NODE_DESC for ib_modify_device.

Shouldn't such devices be "skipped" in terms of setting NodeDescription ?

-- Hal

> This deamon is intended to work with kernels which support polling of the
> procfs hostname file.  If your kernel does not support this feature the daemon
> will set the Node Descriptions to the hostname at start up and then sleep
> forever.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>

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