On 05/18/2016 12:47 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 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.
Then I guess I was just nice to developers back in the day.
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