Re: [PATCH] net/mana: fix dependencies

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

Long,

For the reasons below, we should not have merged the MANA PMD in DPDK 22.11.
We must not assume dependencies until they are upstream.
This is a red flag on the PMD, a revert is possible.

Jason,

Please could you tell us what is the expected date of release
of the MANA support in Linux and rdma-core?


09/10/2022 15:53, Thomas Monjalon:
[...]
> The libibverbs was not detected through pkg-config.
> The method dependency() needs to be used first.
> 
> The support in rdma-core and Linux is not released yet,
> so the documentation is updated.

[...]
> -  The minimum required version of rdma-core with libmana is v43.
> +
> +  The support of MANA is not merged in rdma-core 42.
>  
>  - **Kernel modules**
>  
> @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ and must be installed separately:
>    - mana_ib: InifiniBand device driver.
>    - ib_uverbs: user space driver for verbs (entry point for libibverbs).
>  
> +  The support of MANA is planned in Linux 6.2.