Re: [PATCH] kernel-boot: Do not perform device rename on OPA devices

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 10:26:22AM -0500, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 2/4/2020 9:56 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 08:55:20AM -0500, Goldman, Adam wrote:
> > > From: "Goldman, Adam" <adam.goldman@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > PSM2 will not run with recent rdma-core releases. Several tools and
> > > libraries like PSM2, require the hfi1 name to be present.
> > >
> > > Recent rdma-core releases added a new feature to rename kernel devices,
> > > but the default configuration will not work with hfi1 fabrics.
> > >
> > > Related opa-psm2 github issue:
> > >    https://github.com/intel/opa-psm2/issues/43
> >
> > Why don't you fix opa-psm2 and add required rdma-core version
> > checks inside packaging spec files, like we have inside
> > redhat/rdma-core.spec?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> This is the way PSM has operated from day 1. It has been broken by this
> rename stuff. Clearly not everyone is fan, [1] [2] of the rename.

Of course that not everyone will be happy, it is a nature of progress :).

>
> Seems to me like we should revert back to the original behavior. However in
> lieu of that let HW vendors opt out like what this patch from Adam does.
>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=158082841016117&w=2
> [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=158082569215149&w=2
>
> -Denny



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