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Patch "IB/rdmavt: Disable by default" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

IB/rdmavt: Disable by default

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ib-rdmavt-disable-by-default.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 378fc3201eae07ab0fa7fb4133da141c3072f995 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:03:17 -0700
Subject: IB/rdmavt: Disable by default

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>

commit 378fc3201eae07ab0fa7fb4133da141c3072f995 upstream.

There is a strict policy in the Linux kernel that new drivers must be disabled by default. Hence leave out the "default m" line from Kconfig.

Fixes 0194621b2253 ("IB/rdmavt: Create module framework and handle driver registration")
Cc Jubin John <[email protected]>
Cc Dennis Dalessandro <[email protected]>
Cc Ira Weiny <[email protected]>
Cc Mike Marciniszyn <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/Kconfig |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/Kconfig +0 -1
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 config INFINIBAND_RDMAVT
 	tristate "RDMA verbs transport library"
 	depends on 64BIT
-	default m
 	---help---
 	This is a common software verbs provider for RDMA networks.

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.7/dm-set-dmf_suspended-_before_-clearing-dmf_noflush_suspending.patch queue-4.7/ib-core-make-rdma_rw_ctx_init-initialize-all-used-fields.patch queue-4.7/ib-rdmavt-disable-by-default.patch queue-4.7/ib-srpt-limit-the-number-of-sg-elements-per-work-request.patch queue-4.7/ib-core-rdma-rw-api-do-not-exceed-qp-sge-send-limit.patch