[ewg] [PULL][OFED 3.18] 7.1 compat patches for OFED BZ 2531

[Marciniszyn, Mike]

> On 15/04/15 16:12, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote:
> > Please pull from these fixes from ~mmarciniszyn/scm/new_ofed/compat from
> the for-ofed-3.18 branch:
> >
> > commit 52df7d8c70400e3eefb946f99a4886719e15552e
> > Author: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn at intel.com>
> > Date:   Wed Apr 15 08:54:34 2015 -0400
> >
> >      compat: detect cpumask_set_cpu_local_first
> >
> >      RHEL 7.1 exports cpumask_set_cpu_local_first.  compat's
> >      autoconf needs to detect and avoid the duplicate
> >      symbol.
> >
> >      This addresses OFED BZ 2531.
> >
> >      Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn at intel.com>
> >
> 
> Hi Mike,
> I pushed another fix for this issue already:

> +#define cpumask_set_cpu_local_first
> +LINUX_BACKPORT(cpumask_set_cpu_local_first)
>   int cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(int i, int numa_node, cpumask_t *dstp)
>   {
Won't this avoid using the base kernel routine in all cases?

It would seem to me that using the base kernel version is the best approach...

Mike