[openib-general] [PATCH] install.sh: Cause less pain to SRP users who didn't RTFM

[Roland Dreier]

 > We seem to get panics during multithreaded IO on the initiator.  The
 > panics don't seem to always point to any SRP code, but might be a
 > symptom of memory corruption.  It only seems to show up on 32-bit
 > kernels.  Our distro is a derivative of Fedora.  There were a few more
 > things we wanted to consider, but we stopped debugging when we saw an
 > indication in the release notes that it's not a supported configuration.

I'm not sure who declared it "unsupported" and I would really like to
know what issue(s) led to that declaration.  Your report is the first
I've heard of anything like this, and I have to say that it seems
pretty implausible that running a 32-bit kernel on 64-bit-capable
hardware would be the source of problems -- if there is an issue then
I would expect it to be something to do with the 32-bit kernel.

In any case I definitely consider 32-bit kernels as something I
support, so if you could post a real bug report (what specific kernel
version, if you are running out-of-tree drivers (like OFED), host
server details, SRP target details, how to reproduce, etc) for your
problems with 32-bit kernels then I will try to debug things.

 - R.