[ewg] i need to avoid the NFSRDMA headers in kernel-ib-devel

[Jon Mason]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:12:12PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:42 -0500, Jon Mason wrote:
> > 
> > Just tell them that NFSRMDA is NOT optional ;-)
> 
> Oh, I'm sure not many would have a problem with that.  It's our own risk
> management that prevents us from doing that.
> 
> > Creating a seperate package can be quite harry and will eat a large
> > chunk of time.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> > I think it would be much easier to have some compile
> > time checkes, for example #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_FS around all the NFS
> > specific functions/headers.  Does that sound plausable/reasonable?
> 
> This sounds like one of the options I suggested in the bugzilla bug, but
> CONFIG_NFS_FS is the generic kernel definition to enable NFS isn't it?
> That would mean that if the vendor's default .config enabled NFS, it
> would still not guard the NFSRDMA headers, if I understand you
> correctly.
> 
> I think you need to invent your own macro (maybe CONFIG_OFA_NFS_FS)
> which you define when the user chooses the OFED NFSRDMA and that
> definition guards all of the declarations (heck, in most cases, probably
> just entire include files, with #include_next <> as the #else case of
> the guard) in the OFED NFSRDMA headers.

I can look into this more and see if it does what you want.

Am I correct in assuming that you want this for 1.4.2 as well?

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> b.
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