[ewg] Re: [Scst-devel] [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 RC2 release is available

[Bart Van Assche]

On Jan 28, 2008 1:23 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst at vlnb.net> wrote:
> But that won't change anything. The problem will be simply inverted:
> there will be a possibility to run a SRPT driver compiled for a wrong
> OFED version.

The SRP target driver indeed relies on several OFED kernel headers,
but these kernel headers are included in the mainstream Linux kernel
since some time. When I need OFED kernel modules, I use the modules
included with the mainstream Linux kernel and not those included with
the OFED distribution.

With regard to distribution of kernel code that is newer than the most
recent mainstream Linux kernel I prefer the model followed by the
realtime community: do not distribute the whole source tree but
publish an up-to-date patch every time a new kernel version is
released. See also
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/. Keeping such a
patch up to date is more work but is a lot easier to review than
having to compare source trees.

Bart.