[ewg] [PATCH] add upgrade section to OFED Installation Guide

Erez Zilber erezz at Voltaire.COM
Tue Sep 4 06:55:20 PDT 2007


>
> iSER is just an example. It can happen with any OFED component. I 
> suggest to add the following warning to the documentation:
>
> If the user runs an old OFED version, and upgrades to a
> new version, the old version is still loaded even after
> upgrading. We should warn the user about that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erez Zilber <erezz at voltaire.com>
> ---
>  OFED_Installation_Guide.txt |   17 +++++++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt b/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt
> index ccc01d5..12a94da 100644
> --- a/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt
> +++ b/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt
> @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ Table of contents
>   6.  Building OFED RPMs
>   7.  IPoIB Configuration
>   8.  Uninstalling OFED
> - 9.  Configuration
> - 10. Related Documentation
> + 9.  Upgrading OFED
> + 10. Configuration
> + 11. Related Documentation
>
>
>  ==============================================================================
> @@ -340,9 +341,17 @@ There are two ways to uninstall OFED:
>  2) Using the script uninstall.sh. The script resides under OFED-X.X.X/
>     and under the installation <prefix> directory.
>
> +==============================================================================
> +9. Upgrading OFED
> +==============================================================================
> +
> +If an old OFED version is installed, it may be upgraded by installing a
> +new OFED version as described in section 5. Note that if the old OFED
> +version was loaded before upgrading, you need to restart OFED or reboot
> +your machine in order to start the new OFED stack.
>
>  ==============================================================================
> -9. Configuration
> +10. Configuration
>  ==============================================================================
>
>  Most of the OFED components can be configured or reconfigured after
> @@ -362,7 +371,7 @@ Note: After the installer completes, information 
> about the OFED
>        /etc/infiniband/info.
>
>  ==============================================================================
> -10. Related Documentation
> +11. Related Documentation
>  ==============================================================================
>
>  OFED documentation is located in the ofed-docs RPM.  After
> --
> 1.5.2
>
>
Tziporet,

Can you add this fix to the documentation?

Thanks,
Erez



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