Re: [PATCH 1/2] IB/mlx4: fix the case of invalid speed value returned when the port is down

[Hal Rosenstock <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/2/2012 2:39 PM, Hefty, Sean wrote:
>> On 4/2/2012 7:35 PM, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>>> Rather than always overwriting active_speed in this case, wouldn't it
>>> be better to only do that for invalid values?
>>
>> Yes, I have thought about that, however, spotting invalid values would
>> make the code a bit ugly, so I took this approach, Roland?
> 
> Does the active speed even make sense if the port is down?  

When a port is DOWN, the only PortInfo components that are not
vendor dependent are PortState and PortPhysicalState:

IBA 1.2.1 vol 1 p.830 line 16 states:
C14-24.2.1: If PortInfo:Portstate=Down, then
• a SubnGet(PortInfo) shall produce valid data for PortInfo:PortState
and PortInfo:PortPhysicalState; whether any other component has
valid data is vendor-dependent

> If not, should we assume that any value returned by the FW is correct?

A reserved value should never be returned though so not all values are
"correct". Of course, it has limited meaning in this state.

-- Hal

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