It is now time for the ipath driver to begin to be phased out of the kernel.
This patch moves the ipath driver from the Infiniband sub tree to the staging
area where it will remain until the code is removed from the kernel in a few
releases.
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
M: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@intel.com>
L: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
-F: drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/
+F: drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/
IPMI SUBSYSTEM
M: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
default y
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/Kconfig"
-source "drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Kconfig"
obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_MTHCA) += mthca/
-obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPATH) += ipath/
obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_QIB) += qib/
obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_EHCA) += ehca/
obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_AMSO1100) += amso1100/
# Please keep entries in alphabetic order
if STAGING_RDMA
+source "drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/Kconfig"
+
endif
# Entries for RDMA_STAGING tree
+obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPATH) += ipath/
tristate "QLogic HTX HCA support"
depends on 64BIT && NET && HT_IRQ
---help---
- This is a driver for the obsolete QLogic Hyper-Transport
+ This is a driver for the deprecated QLogic Hyper-Transport
IB host channel adapter (model QHT7140),
including InfiniBand verbs support. This driver allows these
devices to be used with both kernel upper level protocols such
If you have this hardware you will need to boot with PAT disabled
on your x86-64 systems, use the nopat kernel parameter.
+
+ Note that this driver will soon be removed entirely from the kernel.
--- /dev/null
+The ipath driver has been moved to staging in preparation for its removal in a
+few releases. The driver will be deleted during the 4.6 merge window.
+
+Contact Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> and
+Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org