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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2010
Anthony F. Coneski, Newburgh, NY (US);
David Craddock, New Paltz, NY (US);
Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Beth A. Glendening, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Thomas A. Gregg, Highland, NY (US);
Ugochukwu C. Njoku, Yonkers, NY (US);
Anthony F. Coneski, Newburgh, NY (US);
David Craddock, New Paltz, NY (US);
Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Beth A. Glendening, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Thomas A. Gregg, Highland, NY (US);
Ugochukwu C. Njoku, Yonkers, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A tiered discovery capability is employed to obtain attributes regarding adapters of an I/O configuration. The first tier obtains a list of the adapter functions accessible to an operating system; the second tier obtains attributes regarding a selected adapter function of the list of adapter functions; and a third tier obtains common attributes of a group of adapter functions, the group including the selected adapter function.