[ewg] ofed 1.5.1 with kernel 2.6.32.27

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

On 01/14/2011 09:56 AM, Dark Charlot wrote:
>   Dear experts,
>
>   First I don't know if I am posting in the right mailing list, if not,
> please apologize and let me know.
>
> Here is my problem:
> I am running a mandriva cluster ( Mandriva 2010.0 kernel 2.6.31.12), with a
> bunch of mellanox cards. I struggled during one week but finally I was able
> to install OFED 1.5.1 on my running kernel  2.6.31.12 (linux kernel provided
> by the mandriva distribution) and now it works very well and fast !
>
> Recently I upgraded a part of my cluster with the latest stable kernel
> 2.6.32.27 downloaded from http://www.kernel.org.
>
> So far, I am not able to build the ofa_kernel from OFED 1.5.1 package for
> the kernel 2.6.32.27.
>
> When I tried to rebuild the RPM, it stops with the following message :
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> rpm -ivh ofa_kernel-1.5.1-OFED.1.5.1..src.rpm
>
> cd rpmbuild/SPECS
>
> rpmbuild -vv -bb ofa_kernel.spec --define 'configure_options --with-core-mod
> --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod
> --with-mthca-mod --with-mlx4-mod --with-mlx4_en-mod --with-cxgb3-mod
> --with-nes-mod ' --define 'build_kernel_ib 1' --define
> 'build_kernel_ib_devel 1' --define 'KVERSION 2.6.32.27' --define 'K_SRC
> /net/direct/rhdata/jcl/linux-2.6.32.27' --define 'network_dir
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts' --define '_prefix /usr' --define
> '__arch_install_post %{nil}'
> ....
> ....
snip
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   According to the output, there are some unresolved symbols which I don't
> understand.... It looks like I get this unresolved symbols, **only** if I am
> using a linux kernel that I manually compiled. If I used a kernel provided
> by my distribution, these unresolved symbols vanished....
> What I am doing wrong ? Is there specifics options to set when we compile
> the linux kernel from sources ?
>
>   Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>     Jean-Charles.
>

Hi Jean-Charles,
First, this is the right mailing list.
Please send me the full compilation log.


Regards,
Vladimir