On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 12:00:44PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > >> > > >> I'd like to ask if it will be possible to add a DV for dumping a QP. The > > >> standard way to dump a QP is with rdma resource tool but it might not be > > >> available for us on all environments. Hence it will be best for us to add > > >> a direct uAPI for exposing this info, similarly to our query port DV. > > >> Will that be acceptable? or maybe is there any other way we can achieve > > >> this ability? > > > > > > I don't know, new rdma-core library with new API will be available, > > > but stdnalone tool which can be statically linked won't. How is it possible? > > > > > > > If iproute2 package was manually removed from some reason. > > If it is user's decision to remove it, it is user's responsibility to > deal with consequences. Yes, please don't bring backporting crazyness to upstream. Upstream is supposed to be a technically clean self contained solution. If you need software to be deployed in userspace in backport environments then take care to get that software deployed, don't make hacks in upstream to avoid deployment work. Jason
