From: Kamal Heib kheib@redhat.com
redhat/configs: Disable Soft-RoCE driver
We decided to disable the Soft-RoCE driver due to the current unstable status of the driver in the upstream kernel, also because the driver is not fully maintained in the upstream community.
Upstream: RHEL-only.
Signed-off-by: Kamal Heib kheib@redhat.com
diff --git a/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_RDMA_RXE b/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_RDMA_RXE index blahblah..blahblah 100644 --- a/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_RDMA_RXE +++ b/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_RDMA_RXE @@ -1 +1 @@ -CONFIG_RDMA_RXE=m +# CONFIG_RDMA_RXE is not set
-- https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299
From: Patrick Talbert on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299#note_6464328...
@jmflinuxtx you okay with this change for fedora?
There is no separate generic fedora config item for this except that it is disabled specifically for arm/armv7. With this change that file could be removed as well.
From: Justin M. Forbes on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299#note_6464497...
I am good with it, if we get complaints I can always turn it back on for Fedora only.
From: Justin M. Forbes on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299#note_6464500...
Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes jforbes@fedoraproject.org (via approve button)
From: Patrick Talbert on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299#note_6527283...
Taking this as is given it was submitted by the subsystem's maintainer and only reviewer.
From: Michal Berger on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299#note_6952310...
Feel like I am bit late to the party but would it be possible to enable this driver back? :) There are some projects which use it quite extensively while also depending on fedora as a base for the testing environment. The commit states:
We decided to disable the Soft-RoCE driver due to the current unstable status
of the driver in the upstream kernel
I don't see any hints in the source that this driver is unstable (nor deprecated). Would anyone kindly elaborate why it was deemed as such?
From: Justin M. Forbes on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299#note_6952566...
Config reviews are typically tied to RHEL configs. In this case, it was a common config item that I did not choose to keep enabled for Fedora because no one complained, and I did not anticipate that it had current users. If there are use cases which make it desirable, I am happy to enable it for Fedora kernels.
From: Michal Berger on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1299#note_6952690...
Much appreciated and thank you for a quick reply. :)
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