Re: [PATCH rdma-core] redhat: Remove non-existed infiniband modules

[Leon Romanovsky <leonro-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

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On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:43:02AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:54:29AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > The modules ib_addr.ko, ib_mad.ko and ib_sa.ko were integrated
> > into ib_core.ko in following kernel commits:
> >  * c2e49c92326f ("IB/SA: Integrate ib_sa module into ib_core module")
> >  * 4c2cb4220431 ("IB/MAD: Integrate ib_mad module into ib_core module")
> >  * e3f20f02864f ("IB/core: Integrate IB address resolution module into core")
> >
> > Fixes: 39fa824dd80e ("redhat: add udev/systemd/etc infrastructure bits")
> > Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
> >  redhat/rdma.kernel-init | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Make sense to me, but if we are saying the redhat scripts only work
> with a certain newish kernel then it would be great to also purge all
> that crufty compat stuff (mttrs, pci tuning, etc) so we can better
> understand what is still actually needed..

Other stuff doesn't crash our verification runs of upstream rdma-core
vs. upstream kernel :)

In our previous discussions, we agreed to have master branch to be in
sync with Linus's tree and proposed to distributions to manage special
(backported) branches for specific releases.

And I agree with you and  would like to see compat stuff removed.

Doug, Jarod
What do you think? Can you do it?

Thanks

>
> Jason
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