[ewg] OFED-4.8-rc3 fails to build on RHEL6.6

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Ah, in that case you should open up a Bugzilla against the qib driver. Arlin, can you alert the Truescale guys about this regression. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Wise [mailto:swise at opengridcomputing.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 7:26 AM
To: Woodruff, Robert J <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
Cc: 'Veeresh U. Kokatnur' <veereshuk at chelsio.com>
Subject: RE: [ewg] OFED-4.8-rc3 fails to build on RHEL6.6

Turns out the QA team was using 4.8.17 kernel on a RHEL6.6 distro.  And this is a regression from RC2 apparently:

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Hi Steve,

We are running on a 4.8.17 kernel with RHEL6.6 as base OS, the -RC2 was working fine.

Regards,
Veeresh U K
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ewg [mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Wise
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 8:52 AM
> To: 'Woodruff, Robert J' <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>; 
> ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [ewg] OFED-4.8-rc3 fails to build on RHEL6.6
> 
> You're right.  I mistakenly looked at the older release notes that 
> included 6.6.  Our 4.8 release notes don't include RHEL6.
> 
> Never mind.
> 
> 😊
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Woodruff, Robert J [mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 8:49 AM
> > To: Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>; 
> > ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> > Subject: RE: [ewg] OFED-4.8-rc3 fails to build on RHEL6.6
> >
> > Didn't we decide to drop support for the older RHEL 6.x in OFED-4.8, 
> > because the backports were going to be too hard ?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ewg [mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Steve Wise
> > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 5:53 AM
> > To: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> > Subject: [ewg] OFED-4.8-rc3 fails to build on RHEL6.6
> >
> > Anybody else see this?
> >
> >   CC [M]
> > /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> > 4.8/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_iba
> > 7322.o
> > /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> > 4.8/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_use
> > r_pages.c:72:23: error: macro "get_user_pages" requires 8 arguments, 
> > but only 6 given /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> > 4.8/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_use
> > r_pages.c: In function '__qib_get_user_pages':
> > /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> > 4.8/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_use
> > r_pages.c:70: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without 
> > a cast
> > make[5]: ***
> > [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> > 4.8/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_us
> > er_pages.o] Error 1
> > make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >   LD [M]  /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> 4.8/net/rds/rds_tcp.o
> > make[4]: ***
> > [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> > 4.8/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib] Error
> > 2
> > make[3]: ***
> > [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-4.8/drivers/infiniband/hw]
> > Error 2
> > make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-
> > 4.8/drivers/infiniband]
> > Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-4.8]
> > Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/linux-4.8.17'
> > make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> >
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