[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] help install ofed 1.4 on Centos 5.2

[Jon Mason]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:15:08AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:42 +0200, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Chris,
> > Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 comes from RHEL5.4 and is not supported by OFED-1.4.X.
> > You should try OFED-1.5.
> 
> This is a problem we run into with Lustre somewhat frequently.
> 
> The issue is that deploying OFED 1.5 (i.e. beta software) in a
> production environment is completely unacceptable, yet leaving one's
> systems open to kernel vulnerabilities is equally unacceptable.

<modifying list to be ewg>

We should add a upper limit for the kernels supported in the install
script.  So that when new kernels come out, we could very cleanly say
that it is not supported.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> By not backporting support for current kernels to the latest stable OFED
> release you are putting people between a rock and a hard place.
> 
> b.
> 



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