[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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