From: Denis Drozdov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:42:45 +0200
> IP link was broken due to the changes in IPoIB for the rdma_netdev
> support after commit cd565b4b51e5
> ("IB/IPoIB: Support acceleration options callbacks").
>
> This patchset restores IPoIB pkey creation and removal using rtnetlink.
> The first patch introduces changes in the rtnetlink code in order to allow
> IPOIB allocate and free the netdevice.
>
> The second patch establishes appropriate rtnetlink callbacks for IPoIB
> device and restores IPoIB netlink support
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Fixed double free_netdev calls in ops->free_link in netdev_run_todo
> - Removed priv_size from ipoib_link_ops as not required anymore.
Please fix your control flow so that the existing netlink op can do
the right thing.
We're not going to add a whole new set of netdev ops every time a subsystem
has a weird control flow issue that no other device type has. Please fix
this inside of the IB stack, thank you.