[openib-general] Re: ppc64 build failure (4778)

[Nishanth Aravamudan]

On 05.01.2006 [15:15:10 -0800], Roland Dreier wrote:
> Ugh, the latest git tree still has version 2.6.15, so there's no way
> to tell if add_hotplug_env_var() has changed or not.  This will fix
> itself once 2.6.16-rc1 comes out in about 10 days, but I don't know of
> a good way to fix it until then.
> 
> You can hack drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c by hand to change the
> 
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,16)
> 
> to
> 
> #if 0
> 
> but then that won't build against stock 2.6.15.

True -- but with my handy-dandy modified script, I can just build
current svn against 2.6.15 until 2.6.16-rc1 comes out. Yay :) I have
valid (mostly) results from 4 separate runs of all the tests relative to
the svn tree. I will try to get them in a reasonable format soon.


Thanks,
Nish