[openib-general] OFED 1.1 Build Issue

[Moni Levy]

Vlad,
On 10/31/06, Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
>
> Ramachandra K wrote:
> > Moni Shoua wrote:
> >
> >> We already tried to go this way and found that a local Module.symvers
> >> is not always generated (but we might have missed something though).
> >> I suggest that you check that this alternative way works under all
> >> OSs compilation (SuSE and RedHat to be precise)...
> >>
> >>
> > I think Module.symvers generation for external modules was added sometime
> > around 2.6.16, so its not generated on the older kernels (for eg 2.6.9
> > kernels
> > on RHEL)
> >
> > In this scenario, when there is no Module.symvers file, I guess the other
> > option is to use a single Kbuild file to build both modules,
> > as explained in section 7.3 of Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt.
> >
> > But this may not be feasible always. Come to think of it, why does the
> > OFED installation procedure not update the kernel Module.symvers file
> > when it replaces the old kernel modules present in /lib/modules/
> > with the new ones ?
> >
> >> BTW, Why not updating the kernel Module.symvers when kernel-ib-devel
> >> is installed? This will free the developer from copying it to
> >> his/hers private directory.
> >>
> >>
> > It might be a good idea to update the Module.symvers file as part of the
> > normal installation and not only kernel-ib-devel. Because if the kernel
> > modules are being replaced (or new modules are being added), shouldn't
> > the Module.symvers file also be updated ?
> > Regards,
> > Ram
> Agree,
> Module.symvers should be updated by kernel-ib RPM.

AFAIK Module.symvers is used in compile time only so the same logic
that is used for .h files (the devel package) seems reasonable for it.

--Moni

> So, need to implement Moni's suggestion with light changes: update
> kernel-ib RPM %post and %preun sections instead of kernel-ib-devel RPM
> %pre and %postun.
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>
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