On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 08:03:44AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > 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. So provide the i40iw module when providing the i40e upgrade module? I still can't understand why this is a problem that needs to be solved in mainline, or why it deserves a special and unique fix to i40e, or even what the *actual* problem is.. Jason -- 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
