[ewg] question about sles 11 backport

[Jeff Becker]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 11:48 -0800, Jeff Becker wrote:
>   
>> Hi Brian
>>     
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
>   
>>>      2. does the lack of a kernel_addons/backport directory for sles 11
>>>         mean that there are no kernel "include" changes needed for the
>>>         sles 11 kernel to build the OFED stack?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Right, since OFED 1.4.1 and SLES11 are both based on kernel 2.6.27.
>>     
>
> As I figured then.  Excellent.
>
>   
>> Note
>> however, that sometimes the includes are patched by the backport patch.
>>     
>
> Meaning the ofa_kernel/include includes?
>   

Right!

-jeff

>   
>> This is typically done in cases where the include file is actually
>> checked out by the ofed_checkout.sh script - see
>> ofed_scripts/checkout_files for a list of these.
>>     
>
> OK.  Will do.
>
> b.
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