[openfabrics-ewg] Applying kernel patch to OFED on redhat

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Good point.

woody
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) [mailto:sweitzen at cisco.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:29 PM
To: Woodruff, Robert J; Tziporet Koren; Aviram Gutman; EWG
Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Applying kernel patch to OFED on redhat

This is a valid concern, but how will customers tell your OFED apart
from the released OFED?  I think we would need also to add some more
info, say to /usr/local/ofed/BUILD_ID, where you could describe the
differences.

Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of 
> Woodruff, Robert J
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:49 PM
> To: Tziporet Koren; Aviram Gutman; EWG
> Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] Applying kernel patch to OFED on redhat
> 
> We were trying to figure out how one applies a patch to the OFED 1.1
> code,
> and it was less than obvious how to do it. This is what we did, which
> seemed to work but it would be better if it could be done easier.
> Not sure if there is some other way to do it or
> not, but this seemed to work.
> Go to your ofed directory that you installed from:
> 
> cd SRPMS
> 
> rpm -i openib-1.1-0.src.rpm
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> tar zxf openib-1.1.tgz
> cd openib-1.1/drivers/infiniband/core 
> apply patch
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> tar zcf openib-1.1.tgz openib-1.1
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> rpmbuild -ba -target=x86_64 openib.spec
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
> cp openib-1.1.-0.src.rpm to your unpacked ofed install directory SRPMS
> ./install.sh
> 
> Would it be possible in a future release to have a "patches" directory
> and have
> the install scripts apply the patches in the patches directory before
> building
> the software ? If we could do that, it would make it easier 
> to send out 
> critical bug fix patches for a particular release, without having to
> release 
> an entire bug fix release every time a critical bug is found. 
>  
> woody
>  
> 
>  
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