[openib-general] [PATCH RFC 00/21] ofed_1_2 - Chelsio Backport to SLES9SP3

[Steve WIse]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:42 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>:
> > Subject: [PATCH RFC 00/21] ofed_1_2 - Chelsio Backport to SLES9SP3
> > 
> > 
> > Here is the series to back-port the cxgb3 and iw_cxgb3 drivers to
> > SLES9SP3.  Sorry for the large patch count, but each patch is very
> > small and updates or backports a specific file or service needed by the
> > chelsio drivers.
> > 
> > It is missing one big part however: netevent notification support for
> > neighbour and next hop changes.  I'm pondering how to support this
> > outside the kernel.  I did port the netevent notifier service, but no
> > notifications are done as of yet.  So this is TBD.  But the drivers load
> > ok on SLES9SP3 and I'll be testing soon.
> > 
> > Michael, if you have time, please review the various additions/changes
> > I've made and tell me what you think.  Just trying to get some feedback
> > as I go along with these backports...
> 
> BTW, Steve, I wouldn't start working on backports from SLES9.
> I'd start with 2.6.19 and go back to 2.6.11 over kernel.org versions,
> just making sure they build (we have this build environment on openfabrics.org,
> or its easy to check all versions out from kernel.org git).
> In this way you get incrementtall a host of data on what is and what isn't in
> which kernel version.
> 
> Then adding support for a distro is just a matter of finding a closest
> kernel.org kernel and mostly removing stuff that distro backported from newer kernels.
> 

As I jumped into sles9sp3 I realized that's what was done previously.
On the other hand, jumping to sles9sp3 probably hit all the backports
needed. :-)