[openib-general] ISER fails to build on 2.6.15-rc7-git3 (svn=4654)

[Nishanth Aravamudan]

On 30.12.2005 [12:30:18 -0500], Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Hi again Nish,
> 
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:23, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> [snip...]
> 
> > > > I am attaching the patch for this. Note that this patch is for
> > > > 2.6.15-rc<n> and not 2.6.14 variants. It has been tested with
> > > > 2.6.15-rc6. Please let me know if it works for you. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Great, I will start some jobs with the patch now and let you know.
> > 
> > The patch works, but does fail at LD time with:
> > 
> > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xfd784): In function `iscsi_iser_conn_failure':
> > drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c:220: undefined reference to `.iscsi_conn_error'
> > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x1003b0): In function `iscsi_iser_exit':
> > drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c:1989: undefined reference to `.iscsi_unregister_transport'
> > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x10046c): In function `iscsi_iser_init':
> > drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c:1978: undefined reference to `.iscsi_register_transport'
> > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x100a18): In function `iscsi_iser_control_notify':
> > drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c:1855: undefined reference to `.iscsi_recv_pdu'
> > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x100bc0):drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c:1899: undefined reference to `.iscsi_recv_pdu'
> > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x100cd4):drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c:1921: undefined reference to `.iscsi_recv_pdu'
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this causes make to fail, killing the job (I realize
> > these are technically non-critical errors).
> > 
> > So, I'm just going to disable ISER for now in my tests.
> 
> OK but I think you can get this all to build with a little more as
> follows:
> 
> Enable the cryptographic API (as built in rather than as module) with
> CRC32c CRC algorithm, and iSCSI (under Device Drivers/SCSI device
> support/SCSI low level drivers)
> 
> in your kernel configuration.
> 
> That should cause scsi_transport_iscsi (and iscsi_tcp) to be built which
> should take care of the unresolved symbols you are seeing.

This seems to work, I'll report on the numbers once the tests are done.

Thanks,
Nish