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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 05:06:36 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB: make INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS configurable
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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.