[openfabrics-ewg] [PATCH] ehca backport linux_spinlock_to_2_6_9.patch

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen at de.ibm.com>:
> Subject: [PATCH] ehca backport linux_spinlock_to_2_6_9.patch
> 
> Hi,
> below is backport of spinlock.h for kernel 2.6.9. It defines spin_trylock_irqsave(),
> which is required by ipoib.
> I did commit it into contrib/ibm/gen2/backport/2.6.9
> Thanks!
> Nam Nguyen

IPoIB certainly already builds on RHEL U2 which is what 2.6.9 directory
supports. So why is this needed?


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