ACK/Cmnt: [SRU][J:linux-bluefield][PATCH v1 0/1] UBUNTU: [Config] bluefield: disable MLX5, and vendor drivers.

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Sep 6 13:26:59 UTC 2023


On 9/5/23 4:06 PM, William Tu wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2032378
> 
> While backporting devlink series of patch, these drivers show
> compile erros. Since we're not using them in bluefield, disable
> them. Also remove media drivers as bluefield won't use them.
> 
> Totally this patch removes 879 modues, the total modules reduces
> from 6769 to 5918.
> 
> Note: The devlink series will send as pull request due to
> huge number of patches.
> 
> William Tu (1):
>    UBUNTU: [Config] bluefield: disable MLX5, and vendor drivers.
> 
>   debian.bluefield/abi/arm64/bluefield.modules  |  869 -------------
>   .../abi/arm64/bluefield.modules.builtin       |   10 -
>   debian.bluefield/config/annotations           | 1141 ++++++++++++++++-
>   3 files changed, 1126 insertions(+), 894 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

Dropping all of these devices that are otherwise unused seems 
reasonable. Its a big patch, but it does build so I guess I'm OK with it.
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Tim Gardner
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