[ewg] Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/iser: add backport & kernel addons foropen-iscsiover iSER support for RHAS4 up3 and up4

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at dev.mellanox.co.il>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/iser: add backport & kernel addons?foropen-iscsiover iSER support for RHAS4 up3 and up4
> 
> > Quoting Erez Zilber <erezz at voltaire.com>:
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/iser: add backport & kernel addons?foropen-iscsiover iSER support for RHAS4 up3 and up4
> > 
> > 
> > >> I have the following files in backport/2.6.9_UX/include/src/:
> > >>
> > >> attribute_container.c - almost identical to the file on 2.6.20. I had to change one line in it.
> > >>     
> > >
> > > could be a patch ...
> > > which line?
> > >
> > >   
> > Now, attribute_container.c, klist.c & transport_class.c are copied from
> > the kernel tree. I've committed the required changes in
> > ~erezz/ofabuild_iser_rh4.git & ~erezz/ofed_1_2_iser_rh4.git.
> 
> git fetch git://git.openfabrics.org/~erezz/ofed_1_2_iser_rh4.git.
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> Cannot get the repository state from
> git://git.openfabrics.org/~erezz/ofed_1_2_iser_rh4.git.
> 
> 
> > The main
> > change is a new dir called "kernel_addons_patches". It contains patches
> > for kernel tree files in order to create the required addons from them.
> 
> sorry, but I really don't think we can touch build scripts at this point.
> Doing cp in build scripts is also a problem since it interferes with
> development (there are 2 places to edit each file).
> And adding kernel version dependency there is also really messy.

BTW, one important principle is that *all* information about
the kernel build process must be contained inside kernel tree.
Keeping lists of files in an external tree is *evil*.

> Suggestion: why can't these patches be part of the regular backport directory?
> 
> you copy stuff to include/src and then include it, but this just looks
> like and unnecessary extra step. Can't we include the source file from
> it original place directory, like this:
> #include "../drivers/base/attribute_container.c"


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