ACK: [Pull][SRU][X/B/D linux-aws] Add EFA driver to linux-aws

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Aug 6 17:31:35 UTC 2019


AWS-specific feature for AWS-specific hardware.  Looks good.

Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 09:30:31AM -0700, Connor Kuehl wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1837638
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> * The open source EFA driver belongs in the AWS kernels (https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers/tree/master/kernel/linux/efa)
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
>  * Boot tested into each kernel. Loaded and unloaded the module.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
>  * This is a new feature constrained to a custom kernel. Most of the patches have been reviewed and applied to mainline.
>    The compatibility fixup sauce patch is big, but is all preprocessor directives for conditional compilation and these
>    have been maintained in the Github repo during the driver's development. Basically, the blast radius of this pull
>    request should be confined only to this new module and should not impact any other area of the kernel.



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