[ewg] [PATCH] ofed-docs: A cooment about ib-bonding and newer kernels

Moni Shoua monis at Voltaire.COM
Thu Sep 24 03:44:28 PDT 2009


Add comment for ib-bonding and distros that use new kernels (i.e. SLES11)

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
---
 ipoib_release_notes.txt |    5 +++++

 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
index adf1304..3c3d70f 100644
--- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt
+++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
@@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ Notes:
 * Using /etc/infiniband/openib.conf to create a persistent configuration is
   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.
 
 
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