Patch "IB/hfi1: 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/hfi1: 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-hfi1-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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a154a8cd080b437969ef194dee365bbb60a3b38aMon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:03:44 -0700
Subject: IB/hfi1: Disable by default
From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
commit a154a8cd080b437969ef194dee365bbb60a3b38a 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/hw/hfi1/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/Kconfig +0 -1
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ config INFINIBAND_HFI1 depends on X86_64 && INFINIBAND_RDMAVT select MMU_NOTIFIER select CRC32 - default m ---help--- This is a low-level driver for Intel OPA Gen1 adapter. config HFI1_DEBUG_SDMA_ORDER
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.7/ib-hfi1-disable-by-default.patch