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

Or Gerlitz
2018-01-02T09:15:52Z

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Erez Shitrit <erezsh@dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> 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 preferred approach was to have 2 patches one for ipoib and one for core/net.
> So, we can't with patch to ipoib only.

going with your approach, you must sure that the 1st patch is also
backportable all the way back to 4.12

Or.

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