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<div dir="auto">I'm hopeful for 6.2, but it needs a respin I haven't seen yet.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 9, 2022 11:03:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NBU-Contact-longli (EXTERNAL) <longli@microsoft.com>; Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; ferruh.yigit@amd.com <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>; andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>; stephen@networkplumber.org <stephen@networkplumber.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PATCH] net/mana: fix dependencies</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Long,<br>
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For the reasons below, we should not have merged the MANA PMD in DPDK 22.11.<br>
We must not assume dependencies until they are upstream.<br>
This is a red flag on the PMD, a revert is possible.<br>
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Jason,<br>
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Please could you tell us what is the expected date of release<br>
of the MANA support in Linux and rdma-core?<br>
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09/10/2022 15:53, Thomas Monjalon:<br>
[...]<br>
> The libibverbs was not detected through pkg-config.<br>
> The method dependency() needs to be used first.<br>
> <br>
> The support in rdma-core and Linux is not released yet,<br>
> so the documentation is updated.<br>
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[...]<br>
> - The minimum required version of rdma-core with libmana is v43.<br>
> +<br>
> + The support of MANA is not merged in rdma-core 42.<br>
> <br>
> - **Kernel modules**<br>
> <br>
> @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ and must be installed separately:<br>
> - mana_ib: InifiniBand device driver.<br>
> - ib_uverbs: user space driver for verbs (entry point for libibverbs).<br>
> <br>
> + The support of MANA is planned in Linux 6.2.<br>
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