[ewg] [PATCH] docs: Update to the comment of ib-bonding OS scope.
Moni Shoua
monis at Voltaire.COM
Wed Nov 18 03:41:14 PST 2009
Give a better explanation to the ib-bonding OS scope
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
---
diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
index f60ca7c..2d1217a 100644
--- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt
+++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
@@ -272,10 +272,13 @@ Notes:
no longer supported
* On RHEL4_U7, cannot set a slave interface as primary.
* ib-bonding will not be compiled and installed with OFED on OS with kernel
- that is >= 2.6.27. The bonding driver that comes with those kernels already
- supports enslaving of IPoIB interfaces. However, there still might be a issue
- of OS configuration tools (like sysconfig or initscripts) that needs a fix
- but such issues were not observed yet.
+ that is >= 2.6.27 (e.g. SLES11). The bonding driver that comes with those kernels
+ already supports enslaving of IPoIB interfaces. In addition, an OS can come
+ with an older kernel but with a patched bonding driver that also doesn't
+ require modification (e.g. RHEL5.4). OFEED will not replace the bonding
+ module in such cases also.
+ However, there still might be a issue of OS configuration tools (like sysconfig or
+ initscripts) that needs a fix but such issues were not observed yet.
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