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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IB: make INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS configurable
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 5:06 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> 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.

Bugs. We don't currently use CM. But fuzzy testing has been finding a
fair number CM bugs, so we were thinking of disabling it until we need it.

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

I think I've identified the set of options which use
INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS without a kconfig depends:
* CIFS_SMB_DIRECT
* INFINIBAND_SRPT
* NVME_RDMA
* NVME_TARGET_RDMA

I have patches for the above, but need to finish the commit logs. Let me
know if they'll be nacked and I'll just patch my kernel and forget
upstreaming.

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