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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2004
Timothy Roy Block, Rochester, MN (US);
Yu-cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Norbert Mccauley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sean Patrick Riley, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Griswold Sherman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Cheng-chung Song, Tucson, AZ (US);
Timothy Roy Block, Rochester, MN (US);
Yu-Cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Norbert McCauley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sean Patrick Riley, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Griswold Sherman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Cheng-Chung Song, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and program for configuring shared devices over a fabric. A module in a first processing complex configures a first part of a fabric enabling communication with a set of devices accessible through the first part of the fabric. The module detects a located device accessible through a second part of the fabric, wherein a second processing complex is designated to configure the second part of the fabric and the located device. The module determines whether the second processing complex is available in response to detecting the uninitialized device. The module passes to a device driver in the first processing complex an uninitialized property for the located device. The device driver requests the module to configure the second part of the fabric to enable access to the located device over the second part of the fabric in response to determining that the located device has the uninitialized property.