[ofa-general] Re: Trouble installing OFED1.2 with kernel

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 10:22 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting Jeffrey Wong <jwong at datallegro.com>:
> > Subject: RE: Trouble installing OFED1.2 with kernel
> > 
> > I have downloaded the kernel src from
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.8.tar.gz
> > I have gunzip and untarred the directory.
> > 
> > In the file linux-2.6.18.8/include/linux/fs.h.  Here is the structure
> > definition of inode.  When I look below the i_private ptr does not exist. 
> > Please advise.
> 
> Yes but that kernel would be named 2.6.18.8, not 2.6.18-8.el5.
> 
> 

Jeff,
If you named the kernel from kernel.org in 2.6.18-*el5* manner then the
backport patches for RedHat 5.0 will be applied by OFED-1.2. This is the
reason of your failures. 

So, to fix this rename you kernel and then you can install OFED-1.2 with
ipath and ipoib.


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Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il>
Mellanox Technologies Ltd.