[ewg] [PATCH] backports: fix csum_tcpudp_nofold backport for ia64

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at mellanox.co.il
Sun Sep 28 02:13:53 PDT 2008


Yossi Etigin wrote:
> On ia64, csum_tcpudp_nofold() is not an inline function as on other 
> platforms. It's a function that isn't exported until 2.6.23. ib_ipoib
> uses it, thus and fails to load. We redefine this function in the
> backport, if the platform is ia64.
> 
> Fixes bug #1191.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yossi Etigin <yosefe at voltaire.com>

Hi Yossi,
There is a backport header kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-EL5.2/include/asm/checksum.h that
fixes the same issue for RHEL5.2.

I think, it will be enough to copy this header to the relevant directories under kernel_addons/backport.

Regards,
Vladimir



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