[ewg] Re: [PATCH ofed-1.4.1] NFS-RDMA: rnfs-utils not installed on RHEL5.1

[Jon Mason]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:16:41PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> Jon Mason wrote:
>> Since the RHEL5.1 kernel is 2.6.18-53.el5, it will fail the install.pl
>> check for NFS-RDMA compatible kernel version.  As all RHEL5 versions
>> have been backported, the check is no longer necessary and can be
>> removed.
>>
>> Signed-Off-By: Jon Mason <jon at opengridcomputing.com>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/install.pl b/install.pl
>> index f5cb31d..51aaa63 100755
>> --- a/install.pl
>> +++ b/install.pl
>> @@ -1733,13 +1733,9 @@ sub set_availability
>>              $packages_info{'rnfs-utils-debuginfo'}{'available'} = 1;
>>      }
>>      elsif ($kernel =~ m/el5/) {
>> -            my $minor = (split '-', $kernel)[1];
>> -            $minor =~ s/(\.el5).*//;
>> -            if ($minor > 53) {
>> -                $kernel_modules_info{'nfsrdma'}{'available'} = 1;
>> -                $packages_info{'rnfs-utils'}{'available'} = 1;
>> -                $packages_info{'rnfs-utils-debuginfo'}{'available'} = 1;
>> -            }
>> +            $kernel_modules_info{'nfsrdma'}{'available'} = 1;
>> +            $packages_info{'rnfs-utils'}{'available'} = 1;
>> +            $packages_info{'rnfs-utils-debuginfo'}{'available'} = 1;
>>      }
>>   
>
> I would change this to allow >= 53 only.  There is a RHEL5 initial  
> release that was older than 53.  And nfsrdma isn't backported to that  
> kernel.

The kernel in RHEL5.1 is 2.6.18-53.el.  Is there a RHEL5.0?  If so,
there are no backports in kernel_patches/backport for it specifically,
and thus it might now work at all.

>
> Steve.
>
>>       # mvapich, mvapich2 and openmpi
>>   
>