On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 02:04:06PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: >> > Why would you want to do this? The rdma driver is non-functional >> > without the ethernet driver, so why on earth would we want to defeat >> > the module dependency mechanism? >> >> This change is driven by the OSV's like Red Hat, where customer's were >> updating the i40e driver, which in turn broke i40iw. > > Doctor it hurts when I do this.. > > There is no reason to make a mess of our drivers because people are > doing things they should haver never done and that aren't supported > in Linux. > > If Intel didn;t offer any out of tree drivers I'm pretty sure no > customer would even attempt this. So fix this where the problem is. Are you serious? You are never going to see out-of-tree drivers go away. They exist for the simple reason that most customers/OSVs are slow to upgrade their kernels so we have people running on a 3.10 something kernel on their RHEL 7.X and want to use the latest greatest hardware. I find it ridiculous that you expect us to support a product with in-kernel only and it is pretty short sighted to insist that that is the only way to support a product. With that said it probably wouldn't hurt to throw a WARN_ONCE in here somewhere that basically informs the user they are doing something stupid and essentially disabling the i40iw driver if they remove i40e. - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
