[ewg] [PATCH] RedHat EL 5.1 backport patches

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Oct 21 07:41:36 PDT 2007


Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Hi Vlad/Tziporet,
> 
> As we discussed in the EWG meeting last week,
> I worked on a backport patch for OFED 1.3.
> I tested this against the alpha release I pulled
> on Friday. 
> 
> The attached patch can be applied to the 
> ofa_kernel-1.3 directory.
> It creates two new directories,
> ofa_kernel-1.3/kernel_patches/backport/2.6.18-52.el5
> ofa_kernel-1.3/kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-52.el5
> with the appropriate backport patches. 
> 
> It also tweeks the install script,
> ofa_kernel-1.3/ofed_scripts/ofed_patch.sh   to apply the appropriate
> patches
>                                             for RHEL5-U1.
> 
> I only tested it on x86_64 so far, but will also try Itanium
> when I get a chance. I also only tested InfiniBand as I have no iWarp 
> cards, so if the iWarp folks could test that, that would be great.
> I also have no PPC, so if someone could test that too.
> 
> woody

Hi Woody,
I applied your patch (including ia64 patch) to ofed_kernel.git
backport/2.6.18-52.el5 renamed to 2.6.18-EL5.1

I used "2.6.18-[5-9][0-9]*.el5*" as a pattern for RHEL5-U1 detection.
Thanks,

Regards,
Vladimir



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