On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/18/2016 8:02 AM, Devesh Sharma wrote:
> > This patch adds a code to display ocrdma driver technology
> > preview status on ocrdma module load.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch isn't really appropriate for the upstream kernel. The
> upstream kernel has no specific state of "tech preview". I know we use
> that term at Red Hat, others like Oracle and SuSE might too, and it has
> specific connotations in terms of the provided support SLA for the given
> technology, but those things are not relevant to upstream kernels. For
> upstream, only a few things are appropriate:
>
> 1) Your driver is in drivers/staging
> 2) Your driver is fully supported (from a kernel community point of view)
Understood, we will take-up this with Redhat.
Thanks
>
>
> > ---
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c
> > index 07d0c6c..9b8774c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c
> > @@ -444,6 +444,16 @@ void ocrdma_update_link_state(struct ocrdma_dev *dev, u8 lstate)
> > ocrdma_dispatch_port_active(dev);
> > }
> >
> > +void ocrdma_print_tech_preview_status(void)
> > +{
> > + printk(KERN_INFO
> > + "*************************************************************\n");
> > + printk(KERN_INFO
> > + "RoCE supported at Tech Preview level in all OCE141XX Adapters\n");
> > + printk(KERN_INFO
> > + "*************************************************************\n");
> > +}
> > +
> > static struct ocrdma_driver ocrdma_drv = {
> > .name = "ocrdma_driver",
> > .add = ocrdma_add,
> > @@ -456,6 +466,7 @@ static int __init ocrdma_init_module(void)
> > {
> > int status;
> >
> > + ocrdma_print_tech_preview_status();
> > ocrdma_init_debugfs();
> >
> > status = be_roce_register_driver(&ocrdma_drv);
> >
>
>
> --
> Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>
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