From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] IB/ipoib: ip link support Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 11:15:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1514718983-466-1-git-send-email-denisd@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Erez Shitrit Cc: Denis Drozdov , Erez Shitrit , David Miller , RDMA mailing list , Linux Netdev List List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Erez Shitrit wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Denis Drozdov wrote: >>>> IP link was broken due to the changes in IPoIB for the rdma_netdev >>>> support after commit cd565b4b51e5 >>>> ("IB/IPoIB: Support acceleration options callbacks"). >>> >>> you are approaching stable kernels, right? lets make sure dave is okay >>> to pick the net (touching dev.c etc) patch to stable even if the >>> offending patch didn't change anything there. >> >> Erez, Denis >> >> The offending commit went in 4.12-rc1, so the fix should be getting >> a while back. RU sure you need the net/core patch to fix that up or >> we can come up with ipoib only patch? > > The preferred approach was to have 2 patches one for ipoib and one for core/net. > So, we can't with patch to ipoib only. going with your approach, you must sure that the 1st patch is also backportable all the way back to 4.12 Or. > Denis, the author of the patches is on new-year vacation, he will > close all the gaps as soon as he will be back.