<div dir="ltr">Can you tell me how you got it to working for 3.2?<div><br></div><div>The install script clearly checks for </div><div><br></div><div> if ($kernel =~ m/^3\.5/) {</div><div>..</div><div>..</div><div><div> $kernel_modules_info{'iser'}{'available'} = 1;</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>Well, to be honest I am surprised too. I see a lot of issues online regarding iSER, but there is no proper solution to this. I was hoping someone over here, might be able to help.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Narayan Desai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:narayan.desai@gmail.com" target="_blank">narayan.desai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We've had good luck using the iSER support in newer mainline and ubuntu kernel (3.2+). I'd be somewhat surprised if that code hadn't been backported by redhat, but we don't run it so I haven't paid much attention to which patches they carry.<div>
-nld</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Jingcha Joba <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pukkimonkey@gmail.com" target="_blank">pukkimonkey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to install OFED 3.5-2 along with iSER initiator on a machine which has Scientific Linux 6.4 running kernel 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64. This machine has 2 ConnectX -3 cards and a Qlogic Infiniband card. The objective is to use iSER on one of those two ConnectX cards.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Though I can smoothly install OFED 3.5-2, it didn't install iSER. Looking closely in the install script, I noticed that iSER is available for installation only if the kernel version is > 3.5</div>
<div><br></div><div>I manually "flagged" iSER to be available for the kernel I am using in the install script, only to have issue with the installation of compat-rdma.</div><div><br></div><div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:279: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:291: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:296: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't want to upgrade my machine as I would have to reinstall all the other software for this machine. And also because OFED 3.5-2 clearly states that minimal QA testing had been done for kernel 3.5.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also I don't want to use MNLX OFED, as it would make my qlogic infiniband cards inaccessible. </div><div><br></div><div>What should I do to solve this issue I have?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>
<div>--</div><div>Jing</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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