[openfabrics-ewg] [Fwd: Re: On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct [pre-RC6 build]]

[Moni Shoua]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>Quoting r. Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>:
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>>Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct [pre-RC6 build]]
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>>Or Gerlitz wrote:
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>>>Aviram Gutman wrote:
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>>>>Guys,
>>>>Can you fix it today?
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>>>Hi Aviram,
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>>>Moni Shoua (cc-ed on this email) will post later today over the EWG 
>>>mailing list if we impose a limitation of not supporting ofed1.1 build 
>>>with iSER as non root user or we provide a fix.
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>>>Or.
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>>>>Subject:
>>>>Re: [openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct [pre-RC6 build]
>>>>From:
>>>>Betsy Zeller <betsy at pathscale.com>
>>>>Date:
>>>>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:56:13 -0700
>>>>To:
>>>>Aviram Gutman <aviram at dev.mellanox.co.il>
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>>>>To:
>>>>Aviram Gutman <aviram at dev.mellanox.co.il>
>>>>CC:
>>>>"Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) <sweitzen"@cisco.com, Jack Morgenstein 
>>>><jackm at mellanox.co.il>, EWG <openfabrics-ewg at openib.org>
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>>>>
>>>>Aviram - thanks - testing is underway on some distros, but there is a
>>>>problem with  on SLES10 with the pre-build - we've opened bug #237 "1.1
>>>>RC6-pre1 build failure on SLES 10 in oiscsi" on the OpenFabrics bug
>>>>list.
>>>>It's currently assigned to ogerlitz at voltaire, but it may be something
>>>>Vlad needs to work on. Can you get this turned around so we can test on
>>>>SLES10 on Tuesday?
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>>>>Thanks, Betsy
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>>>>On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 16:41 +0300, Aviram Gutman wrote:
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>>>>>Yes, we can give you "pre-rc6" on Monday
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>>Hi,
>>We have decided to leave the requirement of "MUST be root to build iSER" 
>>as is.
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>Fair enough. We'll see how simple it is to add the test for OFED scripts.
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>>Although there is a simple fix for the kernel module there is no such 
>>fix for the user mode RPM (which tries to patch /etc/init.d/open-iscsi)
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>I think it would still be nice to avoid patching the kernel if possible,
>reducing the scope of problem - lots of users hate it when you touch their kernel.
>If it's really simple, can this be turned around by tomorrow?
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OK. I talked to Vlad Sokolovsky and we might go to a solution that does 
not require building the oiscsi-2.6.16-src.rpm
I will do some checks and come back with an answer tomorrow.

thanks again

 >MoniS