Re: [PATCH net 0/2] IB/ipoib: ip link support

Erez Shitrit
2018-01-02T08:44:52Z

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Denis Drozdov <denisd@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>> IP link was broken due to the changes in IPoIB for the rdma_netdev
>>> support after commit cd565b4b51e5
>>> ("IB/IPoIB: Support acceleration options callbacks").
>>
>> you are approaching stable kernels, right? lets make sure dave is okay
>> to pick the net (touching dev.c etc) patch to stable even if the
>> offending patch didn't change anything there.
>
> Erez, Denis
>
> The offending commit went in 4.12-rc1, so the fix should be getting
> a while back. RU sure you need the net/core patch to fix that up or
> we can come up with ipoib only patch?

The prefered approach was to have 2 patches one for ipoib and one for core/net.
So, we can't with patch to ipoib only.

Denis, the author of the patches is on new-year vacation, he will
close all the gaps as soon as he will be back.

>
> Or.
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