From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarod Wilson Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-core] redhat: Remove non-existed infiniband modules Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 22:22:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20170109085429.32598-1-leonro@mellanox.com> <20170109154302.GC29687@obsidianresearch.com> <20170109174025.GB7218@mtr-leonro.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170109174025.GB7218-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky , Jason Gunthorpe Cc: dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, majd-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 2017-01-09 12:40 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:43:02AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:54:29AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >>> The modules ib_addr.ko, ib_mad.ko and ib_sa.ko were integrated >>> into ib_core.ko in following kernel commits: >>> * c2e49c92326f ("IB/SA: Integrate ib_sa module into ib_core module") >>> * 4c2cb4220431 ("IB/MAD: Integrate ib_mad module into ib_core module") >>> * e3f20f02864f ("IB/core: Integrate IB address resolution module into core") >>> >>> Fixes: 39fa824dd80e ("redhat: add udev/systemd/etc infrastructure bits") >>> Cc: Jarod Wilson >>> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky >>> redhat/rdma.kernel-init | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> Make sense to me, but if we are saying the redhat scripts only work >> with a certain newish kernel then it would be great to also purge all >> that crufty compat stuff (mttrs, pci tuning, etc) so we can better >> understand what is still actually needed.. > > Other stuff doesn't crash our verification runs of upstream rdma-core > vs. upstream kernel :) > > In our previous discussions, we agreed to have master branch to be in > sync with Linus's tree and proposed to distributions to manage special > (backported) branches for specific releases. > > And I agree with you and would like to see compat stuff removed. > > Doug, Jarod > What do you think? Can you do it? I think this should be fine, I don't think rdma-core is going to make it's way (at least not directly) back to distros with sufficiently old enough rdma kernel stacks that this would cause any issues. -- Jarod Wilson jarod-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html