ACK/cmnt: [xenial][PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: remove hv_network_direct driver

[Kleber Souza]

On 10/05/17 15:46, Marcelo Henrique Cerri wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721538
> 
> hv_network_direct is an RDMA driver specific for Azure. Supporting it
> requires multiple versions of the driver that are selected via
> userspace. Currently that's only supported in the linux-azure kernel and
> keeping a single version in the xenial kernel might cause issues when it
> doesn't match the host OS version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri at canonical.com>
> ---
>  .../abi/4.4.0-97.120/amd64/generic.modules         |    1 -
>  .../abi/4.4.0-97.120/amd64/lowlatency.modules      |    1 -

The removal makes sense to me.

We just need to adjust the abi path when applying the patch.

Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>

>  debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list     |    1 -
>  drivers/infiniband/Kconfig                         |    1 -
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/Makefile                     |    1 -
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/COPYING           |  339 ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/Kconfig           |    5 -
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/Makefile          |    3 -
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/hvnd_addr.c       |  134 -
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/mx_abi.h          |  232 --
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/provider.c        | 2882 -------------------
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/user.h            |  107 -
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus_rdma.c      | 2951 --------------------
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus_rdma.h      | 2202 ---------------
>  14 files changed, 8860 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/COPYING
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/hvnd_addr.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/mx_abi.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/provider.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/user.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus_rdma.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus_rdma.h