On 7/12/24 16:10, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > [You don't often get email from jgg@xxxxxxxx. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] > > 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 Yeah, makes sense. It was a long shot but still wanted to check for this option. Thanks
