Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: transport module should be auto loaded when transport is set

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 09:59:30AM -0700, Rao Shoaib wrote:
>
> On 5/29/20 4:41 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: rao.shoaib@oracle.com
> > Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 01:17:42 -0700
> >
> > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rds.h b/include/uapi/linux/rds.h
> > > index cba368e55863..7273c681e6c1 100644
> > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/rds.h
> > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/rds.h
> > > @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
> > >   /* supported values for SO_RDS_TRANSPORT */
> > >   #define	RDS_TRANS_IB	0
> > > -#define	RDS_TRANS_IWARP	1
> > > +#define	RDS_TRANS_GAP	1
> > >   #define	RDS_TRANS_TCP	2
> > >   #define RDS_TRANS_COUNT	3
> > >   #define	RDS_TRANS_NONE	(~0)
> > You can't break user facing UAPI like this, sorry.
>
> I was hoping that this could be considered an exception as IWARP has been
> deprecated for almost a decade and there is no current product using it.
> With the change any old binary will continue to work, a new compilation fill
> fail so that the code can be examined, otherwise we will never be able to
> reuse this number.
>
> If the above is not acceptable I can revert this part of the change.

Nothing prohibits you from adding the following lines:

+ /* don't use RDS_TRANS_IWARP - it is deprecated */
+ #define  RDS_TRANS_GAP RDS_TRANS_IWARP

>
> Shoaib
>