On 10/27/2017 4:33 PM, Parav Pandit wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:h...@dev.mellanox.co.il] >> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 3:19 PM >> To: Parav Pandit <pa...@mellanox.com>; Thomas Bogendoerfer >> <tbogendoer...@suse.de>; Matan Barak <mat...@mellanox.com>; Leon >> Romanovsky <leo...@mellanox.com>; Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com>; >> linux-r...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Cc: Ghazale Hosseinabadi <ghazale.hosseinab...@oracle.com> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: give back valid speed/width even without >> plugged >> in SFP module >> >> On 10/27/2017 2:32 PM, Parav Pandit wrote: >>> However I believe that ibstat tool should be enhanced to report unknown port >> speed instead of expecting drivers to supply some random number like this. >> >> ibstat gets the rate from libibumad via /sys/class/infiniband/<IB >> device>/ports/<port number>/rate file which is supposed to be populated by >> the >> driver. Is there no rate file in this error case ? >> > <...>/<port_num>/rate file exist. > > rate_show() has invalid active_width as expected due to nonexistence of SFP. > So sysfs call return invalid value. > We don't have invalid_active_width defined right now. > So ibstat and other applications should not crash on such valid errors.
Agreed. I haven't seen ibstat crash reported though. Can someone provide the crash details ?
