Re: Safe to delete rpcrdma.ko loading start-up code

Sagi Grimberg
2024-05-22T10:50:49Z

On 22/05/2024 2:29, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:30:00PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>
>> I just don't see why the presence of an rdma device dictates that
>> all the ulps autoload. Does rxe/siw count as rdma HW?
> It doesn't do all of them, just the ones the distro decides it wants
> to do, usually for boot volumes. It is a weird historical thing :|

Well, as mentioned, I find it odd. For the same reason why
all tcp flavors of the ulps discussed in this thread don't autoload if
the machine
has a nic (which means pretty much every machine).

Having said that, I don't have the same PoV as distro folks...