[ewg] i need to avoid the NFSRDMA headers in kernel-ib-devel

[Jon Mason]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:36:31PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I think I have asked about this before, or at least tangentially in bug
> 1523.
> 
> The problem is, when I am building software against the OFED
> kernel-ib-devel package, because the NFSRDMA headers are in the same
> include tree as the OFED headers, I cannot get to the OFED headers and
> avoid the NFSRDMA headers.
> 
> When is this a problem?  When I have built my OFED stack *without*
> NFSRDMA support.
> 
> So my expectation is that the driver that I am building with the OFED
> kernel-ib-devel will use the NFS and RPC implementation in the linux
> kernel, not in /usr/src/ofa-kernel, however because the NFSRDMA
> implementation is populated in the same include tree as the core OFED
> implementation, I cannot avoid it.

The OFED NFS implementation replaces the in-kernel version.  So it will
be the version being used.  All references in the tree will thus be
pointing to the correct NFS.  Why would you not want this to be the
case?

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> Thots?
> b.
> 



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