[ewg] question about sles 11 backport

Brian J. Murrell brian at sun.com
Tue Mar 3 12:02:45 PST 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 11:48 -0800, Jeff Becker wrote:
> Hi Brian

Hi Jeff,

> >      2. does the lack of a kernel_addons/backport directory for sles 11
> >         mean that there are no kernel "include" changes needed for the
> >         sles 11 kernel to build the OFED stack?
> >   
> 
> Right, since OFED 1.4.1 and SLES11 are both based on kernel 2.6.27.

As I figured then.  Excellent.

> Note
> however, that sometimes the includes are patched by the backport patch.

Meaning the ofa_kernel/include includes?

> This is typically done in cases where the include file is actually
> checked out by the ofed_checkout.sh script - see
> ofed_scripts/checkout_files for a list of these.

OK.  Will do.

b.

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