[openfabrics-ewg] Re: Updated ipath patches in OFED tree

[Betsy Zeller]

Tziporet, (or anyone else who can answer this quickly, as I know
Thursday is a holiday for many) - in order to do what you ask, we need
to know the location of the repo for the RC6 build tree. We believe we
can create a few small but critical fixes for RC6 from the larger list
we sent, but we need to see the RC6 build tree in order to determine
this.  

Also, can you clarify - you mentioned that you removed all ipath patches
- can you let me know which ipath patches you removed? 

Thanks, Betsy


On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:45 +0300, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Betsy Zeller wrote:
> > Tziporet - Bryan's patches from ofed: gen2/1.0-branch/1.0/ofed/patches
> > are intended to be applied against the InfiniPath source you built for
> > OFED RC5, rather than against Roland's git tree. Because 2.6.17 was very
> > close to releasing, there were some InfiniPath patches Roland preferred
> > to defer to 2.6.18. Consequently, there are patches in OFED RC5 which
> > aren't in Roland's git tree. The patches Bryan placed in 
> > ofed: gen2/1.0-branch/1.0/ofed/patches depend on those patches, and so
> > will need to be applied against your OFED RC5 tree.
> >
> > Please let me know if this approach works for you.
> >
> > Thanks, Betsy
> >
> >
> >   
> I must take latest git since there are important bug fixes there. 
> Eventually when kernel 2.6.17 will be out, we will work directly from 
> sources of kernel.org. 
> 
> Our build process  is as follows :
> 
>    1. Take code from git (2.6.17)
>    2. Apply fixes patches
>    3. Apply back-port patches (according to relevant OS) 
> 
>  
> I  communicated with with Bryan  via e-mail before his vacation and I 
> understood that that for RC6 he would  update the backport patches 
> according to the latest git tree (Roland inserted many ipath patches 
> last Wednesday).   Evidently, there was a  misunderstanding here.
> I  therefore removed all ipath patches from ofed /patches for now  (so 
> that we can continue our development and testing) . 
>  
> Please fix the  patches ASAP. Before resubmitting the ipath patches, 
> please verify that they apply properly (using the build.sh script). 
>  
> We  will be on vacation on Thursday (Shavuot), and therefore we won't be 
> taking any further action on this matter until Sunday; due to 
> the shortness of time remaining until the OFED release, I suggest that 
> you try to fix the patches by Friday afternoon.
> 
> 
> Tziporet
> 
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Betsy Zeller
Director of Software Engineering
QLogic Corporation
System Interconnect Group
(formerly PathScale, Inc)
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