On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:23:30AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 08:52:01 +0100 > Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranje...@6wind.com> wrote: > > > Hi Stephen, > > > > Seems you missed an important point, MLNX_OFED is still supported with > > this driver allowing it to work on stable releases like strict debian 9 > > i.e. without updating the Linux kernel. > > So the documentation should reflect the two possibilities more clearly. > > OFED version > ?? > or RDMA core version >= 16 > > The current documentation is unclear and doesn't help the users.
It is explained in the section "21.5.1. Installation" [1] of the mlx5 documentation. I am not against modifying the documentation to make it more clearer, but we need to keep both information MLNX_OFED with un-modified distributions or Linux Kernel upstream with RDMA-Core for those who have modified their Linux Kernel. Thanks, [1] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.html#installation -- Nélio Laranjeiro 6WIND
