[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> The kernel code will
> always match the openib package.  When I update one, I update the other.
> So, you always know the base by looking at the openib package version,
> and then you can see any additional patches I've applied to user space
> by looking at the openib.spec file, and you can see additional patches
> to the kernel by looking for the main OFED patch (in RHEL4, it's patch
> 2700, in RHEL5 it's patch 2600), and immediately after or before the
> main update patch will be the individual change patches that we've
> applied.

You lost me here. Example?

The OFED support page
https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=OFED+Support
mentions patches for two critical bugs in kernel code:

IPoIB kernel oops, and mthca off-by-one.

Are these two applied? How to find out?

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