[ewg] ofa_1_5_kernel 20091104-0200 daily build status

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 16:28 +0200, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote: 
> 

You recall that this was a change you suggested in response to the
previous failure:

http://www.mail-archive.com/ewg@lists.openfabrics.org/msg07773.html

which Jeff Becker is also reporting here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/ewg@lists.openfabrics.org/msg07854.html

Jeff includes more detail about the commit that actually broke this:

committer Jack Morgenstein <ja... at dev.mellanox.co.il> 
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:17:33 +0000 (16:17 +0300)
commit 1f462241bd18d9b5727ddea90459e7763b69e11c
backports: 2.6.16_sles10_sp2: patches and add-ons based on kernel 2.6.18 
backport

> Then this kernel requires another backport directory based on 2.6.16_sles10_sp2 under
> kernel_patches/backport/ and kernel_addons/backport/ with corresponding change in ofed_scripts/get_backport_dir.sh
> (E.g. 2.6.16_sles10_sp2_lustre).
                          ^^^^^^
This breakage has got nothing to do with Lustre, per Jeff's report.  In
any case, creating an entire new and mostly duplicate backport for a
single change that is simply not portable seems like a sledgehammer of a
solution, no?

> Please prepare backports for this kernel and I'll apply it to the OFED's 1.5 kernel git tree.

I don't think I am going to have to time to prepare an entire backport
(nor do I believe it's the correct solution) for this problem, but it
seems it must be fixed before GA per Jeff's independent report of the
same failure or anyone using this newer SLES10_SP2 kernel will run into
this problem.

Cheers,
b.

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