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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>
Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Honggang LI <honli@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RDMA device renames and node description
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:54:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200219165423.GR31668@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67915d24-149a-e940-1f0b-a173eb4aca84@amazon.com>

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 04:35:40PM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:

> > Again, call it what you want, but you can't deny this change to force the rename
> > by default has not broken things. For the record I'm not even talking about PSM2
> > here. There are other, more far reaching implications.
> 
> It's not just PSM2, it broke our libfabric provider and apparently MVAPICH as well:
> http://mailman.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/mvapich-discuss/2020-January/006960.html

You all recognize that finding stuff name dependent stuff like this is
horribly hacky, right?

The whole point of doing this, over a long time, is to get all this
hacky stuff fixed up.

> Regarding the issue you described, why not disable the rename on the upgrade
> path and only enable it for fresh installations?

That isn't really a rdma-core issue, though?

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-19 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-14 18:13 RDMA device renames and node description Dennis Dalessandro
2020-02-18 14:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-02-18 17:11   ` Dennis Dalessandro
2020-02-18 20:08     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-19  7:11     ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-02-19 14:14       ` Dennis Dalessandro
2020-02-19 14:35         ` Gal Pressman
2020-02-19 15:10           ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-02-19 16:54           ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-02-19 14:48         ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-02-19 15:34           ` Dennis Dalessandro
2020-02-19 16:58         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-19 19:35           ` Dennis Dalessandro
2020-02-19 23:18             ` Ira Weiny
2020-02-20  2:26               ` Dennis Dalessandro

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