On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:58:19AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 05/17/2016 01:48 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 04:27:05PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > >> It's not removing two lines. If someone wants to be able to boot both > >> kernels prior to this change and kernel post this change, they have to > >> now write their script to handle both conditions sanely. And they have > >> to know to do so, where as very often they simply get caught off guard > >> and things are broken for some period of time. If the change to ib_addr > >> actually solved a problem that couldn't be solved otherwise, that would > >> be one thing. But it doesn't. It's a complete no-op. > > > > I think that your position is too tight for not allowing modules > > restructure. It looks like that this complexity doesn't exist outside > > testing scripts. > > No, they were/are production scripts. > > > For my testings, I'm using Debian Sid with inbox scripts/packages and it handles > > correctly IB stack with different kernels and different set of modules. > > Does it support reloading the stack and have you tried it if it does? It is RedHat specific, from my understanding in other distribution there is no special script to reload RDMA, I wrote for myself module reload script for debug. > > -- > Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> > GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD > >
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