[ewg] ofa_1_5_kernel 20091007-0200 daily build status

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 09:51 +0200, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
> 
> Hi Vlad,
> 
>> ISER in OFED-1.5 supported on kernel 2.6.30 only (there is no backport 
>> patches for kernels < 2.6.30).
> 
> Ahhh.  This is a new requirement then with OFED 1.5?  Previous OFED
> releases (i.e. 1.4) supported ISER on most (all?) supported (i.e.
> RHEL/SLES vendor) kernels didn't it?

ISER is maintained by Voltaire.
So far no backports for ISER were provided for OFED-1.5.

> 
>> Daily build script and OFED's install 
>> script prevent ISER compilation on kernels < 2.6.30.
> 
> I see.
> 
>> As I understand, you passed '--with-iser-mod' parameter manually to the 
>> rpmbuild command. Therefore you got this failure.
> 
> Right.
> 
>> So, if you want to use ISER on kernel < 2.6.30 you can't use OFED-1.5 or 
>> you need to prepare the backport patches.
> 
> Is this something that's expected to be remedied before the GA release,
> or has a decision been made to officially not support ISER for $kernel <
> 2.6.30 with OFED 1.5?

Or,
Can you answer this?
Note: Currently, if someone want to use ISER with kernel < 2.6.30 he 
can't use OFED-1.5.

Regards,
Vladimir