[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] build failure on nightly tarball -- bonding

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Moni Shoua wrote:
> Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
>   
>> Moni Shoua wrote:
>>     
>>> Moni Shoua wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Andrew Friedley wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> The chelsio build errors from yesterday appear to be gone, though now
>>>>> I'm seeing errors building the IB bonding code with the 3/2 alpha
>>>>> tarball -- error below.  I'm wondering, is there a way to selectively
>>>>> avoid building things like this that seem to be optional, as a tarball
>>>>> user?
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> For the error messages.... It seems to me that the problem is one
>>>> that I have already fixed.
>>>> The corrected source RPM is in my home dir.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Hi Vlad,
>>>
>>> 1. Is there a way to tell OFED build/install not to compile bonding?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes, see build_env.sh:
>>
>> 216 # Add bonding support for RH4.0U3 and SLES10
>> 217 case ${K_VER} in
>> 218     2.6.16.*-*-*|2.6.9-34.EL*)
>> 219         IB_ALL_PACKAGES="$IB_ALL_PACKAGES ib-bonding"
>> 220     ;;
>> 221 esac
>> ...
>> 2049                     ib_bonding)
>> 2050                         # Add bonding support for RH4.0U3 and SLES10
>> 2051                         case ${K_VER} in
>> 2052                             2.6.16.*-*-*|2.6.9-34.EL*)
>> 2053                                 EXTRA_PACKAGES=$(echo
>> "$EXTRA_PACKAGES ib-bonding" | tr -s ' ' '\n' | sort -n | uniq)
>> 2054                             ;;
>> 2055                             *)
>> 2056                                 warn_echo "ib-bonding is not
>> supported on this kernel"
>> 2057                             ;;
>> 2058                         esac
>> 2059                     ;;
>>
>>     
> So I understand that ib-bonding will compile and install if kernel is in the list
> of supported kernels. Am I right?
> Isn't there a a flag in ofed.conf (or something like that)?
>   
ib-bonding can be installed on server with kernel 2.6.16.*-*-* or 
2.6.9-34.EL*.
If you will put "ib_bonding=y" in ofed.conf and your kernel is not 
2.6.16.*-*-* or 2.6.9-34.EL* then you will get the following warning:
"ib-bonding is not supported on this kernel" and it will not be 
compiled/installed.

Regards,
Vladimir