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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Tarick Bedeir <tarick@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB: make INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS configurable
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 05:06:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180415120636.GA10759@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180413070644.11974-1-gthelen@google.com>

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:06:44AM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> Allow INFINIBAND without INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS.

Why?  We are pushing everyone heavily to use RDMA/CM, so making it
optional seems rather counter-intuitive.

You'll also have to fix tons of ULPs to explicitly depend on
INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS, or make code conditional on it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-15 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-13  7:06 [PATCH] IB: make INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS configurable Greg Thelen
2018-04-13 12:47 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-04-13 17:27   ` [PATCH v2] " Greg Thelen
2018-04-14 15:13     ` Dennis Dalessandro
2018-04-14 15:34       ` Greg Thelen
2018-04-14 15:36         ` [PATCH v3] " Greg Thelen
2018-04-14 18:22           ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-14 18:47           ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-14 16:05         ` [PATCH v2] " Joe Perches
2018-04-16  9:03   ` [PATCH] " oulijun
2018-04-15 12:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-04-16  4:02   ` Greg Thelen
2018-04-16  8:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-16 14:51       ` Jason Gunthorpe

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