<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote id="DWT724" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 12/09/13 18:54, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:<br>> I adopted 0025-ib_srp-Backport-to-older-kernels.patch from OFED-3.5 into<br>> compat-rdma (master) including changes Amir sent to me.<br>> Please try<br>> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.12-daily/OFED-3.12-20131209-0842.tgz<br><br>Hi Vladimir,<br><br>I had a look at<br>http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git;a=blob;f=patches/0005-BACKPORT-ib_srp.patch<br>instead. I hope that you don't mind that I have a few questions about<br>that patch (which bears my signed-off-by but which is a patch I hadn't<br>seen before) ?<br></blockquote>Hi Bart,<br>This patch was taken from OFED-3.5 (compat-rdma/patches/0025-ib_srp-Backport-to-older-kernels.patch) with an addition of the backport for scsi_target_unblock.<br><br><blockquote id="DWT725" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Which upstream kernel versions and which vendor distro's will be<br>supported by OFED 3.12 ?<br></blockquote>RHEL6.4, RHEL6.5, SLES11 SP3.<br>Other OSes may be added if required.<br><blockquote id="DWT726" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Building the SRP initiator requires a recent version of the kernel<br>source files drivers/scsi/Makefile, drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h,<br>drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c,<br>drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp_internal.h and<br>include/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.h. I haven't seen these in the master<br>branch of the linux-3.12 git repository<br>(http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=compat-rdma/linux-3.12.git;a=tree;hb=master).<br>Is that correct ?</blockquote><br>I added these files to the linux-3.12 git repository.<br><br><blockquote id="DWT727" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>- Are there any plans to include the upstream kernel 3.13 SRP initiator<br>patches in OFED 3.12 ? I think these patches improve the SRP initiator<br>significantly in a multipath setup.<br><br></blockquote>You can add relevant patches under compat-rdma/linux-next-cherry-picks.<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Vladimir<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>- Are there any plans to include the upstream kernel 3.13 SRP initiator<br>patches in OFED 3.12 ? I think these patches improve the SRP initiator<br>significantly in a multipath setup.<br><br></blockquote></div></body></html>