On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 12:11:00AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 01:21:21PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > Yes, we should add a deprecation one shot printk to the kernel for the
> > > sysfs interface to encourage people to use ip
> >
> > Please don't do that, it won't help for anyone, and especially for the people
> > who didn't hear about "ip" in 2017.
>
> This is the standard kernel way to encourage people to use the new
> interfaces...
>
> > IPoIB netlink doesn't support enhanced IPoIB device because child
> > device in netlink code was not allocated with rdma_alloc_netdev call
> > as it was done for other flows.
>
> I don't understand, isn't this just a (bad) bug to be fixed?

Yes and we want to fix it BEFORE adding discouraging warnings.

Thanks

>
> Jason