[ofa-general] el5.3 backport of 1.4(.0)

[Stijn De Weirdt]

> Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > i am preparing an upgrade from SL5.2 to SL5.3 (which are EL5 clones).
> > one thing we would also like to look at is switching from OFED 1.3.2 to
> > OFED 1.4. and one thing i noticed is that the necessary 5.3 backport
> > fixes only exist in the current 1.4.1 daily snapshots.
> > did anyone already try to backport the el5.3 backport fixes from 1.4.1
> > to 1.4.0?
> >
> > many thanks,
> >
> > stijn
> >
> >   
> Its the same tree so backports of RHEL 5.3 from 1.4.1 should work on 1.4 too
> 
hi tziporet,

i actually already tried that, moving the following files from a recent
1.4.1 daily to the 1.4.0 ofa_kernel src rpm
ofed_scripts/get_backport_dir.sh
kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/
kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/

but rebuilding this gave the following error:
(i have to say that the kernel i used was 2.6.18-128.1.1 instead the
original el5.3 2.6.18-128)

        /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.4/kernel_patches/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/mlx4_en_0099_no_multiqueue.patch
patching file drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
Apply anyway? [n]
Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file
drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c.rej
patching file drivers/net/mlx4/en_tx.c
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
Apply anyway? [n]
Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file
drivers/net/mlx4/en_tx.c.rej
patching file drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
Apply anyway? [n]
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file
drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_en.h.rej
Failed to apply
patch: /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.4/kernel_patches/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/mlx4_en_0099_no_multiqueue.patch

it is also a patch file that doesn't exist in the el5.2 backport, so i
was thinking that this was a patch for 1.4.1, not 1.4.0, that's why i
asked it here.

anyway, many thanks for looking into this!

stijn

> Tziporet
> 
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