Re: rdma-core soon in Debian

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 04:13:11PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> a few weeks passed since my last status update regarding rdma-core in
> Debian. We made good progress in getting it ready. Only three items are
> left:
>
> 1) I sent three patches for the ibacm and iwpmd service to the mailing
> list. They need to be reviewed and accepted:
>
> $ git log --oneline master..bdrung
> c3654500 ibacm: Add systemd service file
> 562d5a00 iwpmd: Support Debian/Ubuntu in sysvinit service
> 9744e8d2 ibacm: Fix service start_daemon call on Debian

It will be merged on Sunday, depends on lack of objections.

>
> 2) Common infrastructure for auto loading rdma modules: See the "Add
> rdma service for kernel boot support" thread on this mailing list.
> Jason Gunthorpe made a very good proposal were I made some comments on
> it.
>
> 3) Get rid of openibd and rdma service dependencies:
>
> $ git grep openibd
> ibacm/CMakeLists.txt:set(rdmascript "openibd")
> srp_daemon/CMakeLists.txt:set(RDMA_SERVICE "openibd" CACHE STRING
> "init.d file service name to order srpd after")
> $ git grep rdma.service -- ibacm/
> ibacm/ibacm.service.in:Requires=rdma.service
> ibacm/ibacm.service.in:After=rdma.service opensm.service
>
> openibd is not part of rdma-core and rdma.service will go away with the
>  changes in point 2.
>
>
> I expect to see progress on these points in the coming days / next
> week. When all changes are in master, will we create a new release?
> Otherwise I will have to base my upload on v14 and cherry-pick all
> relevant changes.

Usually, we are releasing rdma-core, a week or two after Linus's -rc1
release. Let's see how the progress will be and decide then.

Thanks

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