We are installing multiple servers directly attached to our Infiniband fabric and for that we rely on PXE booting.
We have noticed that starting with RL 9.8, the ipoib (IP over IB) kernel module seems missing from the pxeboot images:
root@mirror:/var/www/html/rocky# lsinitrd 9.7/BaseOS/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img | grep ipoib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 31 2025 usr/lib/modules/5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74812 Oct 31 2025 usr/lib/modules/5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ib_ipoib.ko.xz
root@mirror:/var/www/html/rocky# lsinitrd 9.8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img | grep ipoib
root@mirror:/var/www/html/rocky#
Is this a design decision? I have not found any mention of such a change in the official changelog of RHEL 9.8 regarding this specifically or Infiniband in general.