Re: qedr and vmw_pvrdma are not packaged in rdma-core

Leon Romanovsky
2017-02-02T09:39:33Z

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:17:56AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 02.02.2017, 00:13 -0800 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:26:28AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > Hi Ram and Adit,
> > >
> > > I want to bring to your attention that qedr and vmw_pvrdma drivers
> > > are
> > > missing from various package files available in rdma-core.
> > >
> > > Can you please send the patches which add your drivers to rdma-core
> > > packages (Redhat and Debian)?
> >
> > Even better: can we find a way so that providers (old and new) get
> > added automatically?
>
> debian/ibverbs-providers.install specifies:
> usr/lib/*/libibverbs/lib*-rdmav2.so
>
> So if CMake installs the provider, the package will automatically pick
> it up.

RedHat has different scheme with explicit declaration, from redhat/rdma-core.spec
98 Provides: librxe = %{version}-%{release}
99 Obsoletes: librxe < %{version}-%{release}

But it is not installation only.
for example debian/copyright doesn't have information about
providers/vmw_pvrdma.

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