On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:15:08AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:42 +0200, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote: > > > > Hi Chris, > > Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 comes from RHEL5.4 and is not supported by OFED-1.4.X. > > You should try OFED-1.5. > > This is a problem we run into with Lustre somewhat frequently. > > The issue is that deploying OFED 1.5 (i.e. beta software) in a > production environment is completely unacceptable, yet leaving one's > systems open to kernel vulnerabilities is equally unacceptable.
<modifying list to be ewg> We should add a upper limit for the kernels supported in the install script. So that when new kernels come out, we could very cleanly say that it is not supported. Thoughts? Thanks, Jon > > By not backporting support for current kernels to the latest stable OFED > release you are putting people between a rock and a hard place. > > b. > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > gene...@lists.openfabrics.org > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg