[openib-general] Re: kernel build failure

[Nishanth Aravamudan]

On 15.01.2006 [08:56:48 -0800], Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Nishanth> Is this related the semaphore to mutex conversions from
>     Nishanth> Ingo? If so, does this mean that it's only expected to
>     Nishanth> build with 2.6.15-git{6,7,...}  or so? (Remember, I'm
>     Nishanth> stuck with 2.6.15 until 2.6.16-rc1 comes out so that I
>     Nishanth> can use ISER without having to patch again).
> 
> Yes, it's related, but 2.6.15 should still work.  I'm surprised that
> svn doesn't build for you against 2.6.15 -- I created
> <linux/mutex-backport.h> under the include directory in the svn
> repository, and my tree does build against 2.6.15 for me.

I think it was a bug in my build script, actually, I was only cp -R the
rdma directory, not everything that might be under include/. I'm going
to rerun the test now to see if that fixes things.

> There is the same old story that until 2.6.16-rc1 comes out (which
> should be in the next day or so), I don't know of a way to tell the
> difference between a real 2.6.15 kernel, and a 2.6.15-gitX kernel.  So
> there may be trouble with svn against a Linus git kernel.

Yup, I'll let you know soon with an updated status.

Thanks,
Nish