[openib-general] backporting fixes
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Sep 27 14:20:21 PDT 2006
> Now that 2.6.18 (with an additional patch) I looked at backporting bugfixes to
> older kernels. The main problem I see is that the neighbour destructor
> interface change is not in 2.6.16, so IPoIB crashes randomly.
>
> So approaches are
> - Try to push the change into 2.6.16 by netdev
> - Use the all-neighbour list as done by ofed
> - Abandon the whole project
>
> Ideas?
Unfortunately I don't think this bug is very amenable to being fixed
in a 2.6.16/-stable tree. So the third solution is probably the best
we can do at this point.
- R.
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