[ewg] Re: ofa_1_2_c_kernel 20070802-0201 daily build status

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: ofa_1_2_c_kernel 20070802-0201 daily build status
> 
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 15:30 +0200, Hoang-Nam Nguyen wrote:
> > Hello Doug and Scott!
> > 
> > On Thursday 02 August 2007 18:08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > ehca backports for kernel.org kernels seem to be broken.
> > > 1. Does anyone care enough to fix them? If not we'll disable
> > >    ehca in build for these kernels.
> > > 
> > > 2. Could you upload kernels for RHEL4U5 and SLES10 ppc64?
> > >    This would make it possible for us to add it to nightly builds.
> > Could you please provide Michael and Vladimir with a URL to download
> > above kernel source tree in order to perform daily build of ofed
> > code suite? This will help us to prevent build issues in very early
> > stage.
> 
> Actually, with RHEL4 didn't we already establish that me uploading a
> source tarball is definitely *not* the way to go?  The kernel-devel rpm
> on each arch only includes the files that it thinks are relevant to that
> arch, and by compiling against a complete source tree, you missed the
> fact that the ppc64 arch wouldn't compile against the kernel-devel.ppc64
> package entirely.

This was never intended as a replacement for testing - this is just a
tool to speed up backport development.

But fine - upload the files from the kernel-devel rpm then.

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MST