Re: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Di Domenico
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Michael wrote, >>For those of us that are not hardcore kernel developers can you >>explain what this change would actually do?  I'm not sure i understand >>how having a source tree with the patches already applied is any >>different then

Re: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Ira Weiny
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:25:26 -0700 "Woodruff, Robert J" wrote: [snip] > > Long term it would also be good if these lustre patches were in the upstream > kernel, which would allow them to eventually get into the Linux distros so > that > people did not have to be applying patches and building c

RE: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Michael wrote, >For those of us that are not hardcore kernel developers can you >explain what this change would actually do? I'm not sure i understand >how having a source tree with the patches already applied is any >different then taking the base kernel and applying a patch tree. But >then agai

Re: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Di Domenico
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Christoph wrote, >>I surely wish this constant nightmare would go away. Could we please have >>OFED trees against each kernel version in use somewhere so that we can >>just do a git pull to get these into the respective trees? > > Other

RE: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Christoph wrote, >I surely wish this constant nightmare would go away. Could we please have >OFED trees against each kernel version in use somewhere so that we can >just do a git pull to get these into the respective trees? Other people have also asked for this, i.e., a source tree for each kerne

Re: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Steve Wise wrote: > The ofa kernel configure/build scripts are not detecting that your kernel > source is RHEL5.x. If you just use the ofa_kernel tree to build/install the > OFED modules, then you can specify explicitly which backport patches to use > when you configure it.

Re: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-14 Thread Steve Wise
On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: is there a mechanism somewhere inside the kernel source rpm that detects which specific RHEL kernel is running and then applies those backport patches? I'm trying to get OFED 1.5.3 to compile against RHEL5.6 with the lustre patches I've already