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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378fc3201eae07ab0fa7fb4133da141c3072f995Mon 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.
--- 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