[ewg] Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] ofed_scripts: Add location code fix for older ppc64 kernels

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> Kernels prior to 2.6.24 have problems with multiple devices sharing the same
> location code on ppc64 systems -- only one of these devices would be usable
> by ibmebus. This will be a problem on systems with multiple eHCA chips on a
> single hardware location.
> 
> For older kernels, this problem can be circumvented by, prior to loading the
> eHCA driver, changing the location codes of the offending devices so that
> they're not the same anymore. This patch adds that circumvention to openibd,
> with an additional check to make sure we're on the right architecture and
> kernel version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes at de.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> This is a repost of my previous patch, with the changes suggested by
> Vladimir included.
> 
>  ofed_scripts/openibd |   69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 

Applied.

Regards,
Vladimir