[ewg] [PATCH] docs: Update to the comment of ib-bonding OS scope.
Vladimir Sokolovsky
vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Wed Nov 18 03:43:39 PST 2009
Moni Shoua wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> ===============================================================================
Applied,
Regards,
Vladimir
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