[openib-general] [PATCH] IB/Kconfig: add help text and change CMA config name

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Sep 19 09:42:18 PDT 2006


    Or> I am fine with having the CMA config selected whenever someone
    Or> selects INFINIBAND so adding the help text and making it
    Or> visible are not a must per my taste. However, are you fine
    Or> with changing the **name** of the config directive to
    Or> CONFIG_INFINIBAND_RDMA_CM so its better understood?

No, since really what it is controlling is the ib_addr module.

    Or> As Erez wrote you on the other thread, we must depend on the
    Or> CMA else a user running make rndconfig would be able to
    Or> produce a config file where INFINIBAND is selected but the CMA
    Or> (RDMA_ADDR_TRANS) config is not selected so linkage will fail.

How?  make randconfig won't produce invalid configurations.

 - R.




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