Re: [PATCH] IB: make INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS configurable

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Apr 15 2018 - 08:06:44 EST


On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:06:44AM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> Allow INFINIBAND without INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS.

Why? We are pushing everyone heavily to use RDMA/CM, so making it
optional seems rather counter-intuitive.

You'll also have to fix tons of ULPs to explicitly depend on
INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS, or make code conditional on it.