[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] installer: update kernel symbol versions

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Yosef Etigin <yosefe at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: [PATCH] installer: update kernel symbol versions
> 
> Enable users to build modules over OFED kernel code without additional steps.
> 
> install.sh:
>   post-install step (conditioned on kernel-ib-devel installation):
>    1. save ${K_SRC}/Module.symvers to ${K_SRC}/Module.symvers.save
>    2. update ${K_SRC}/Module.symvers with symbol versions from ${K_TREE}/updates/kernel
> 
> uninstall.sh: 
>   restore ${K_SRC}/Module.symvers.save
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yosef Etigin <yosefe at voltaire.com>

I don't think editing kernel sources, which is a package independent of OFED, is
the way to go.  Anyone building modules on top of OFED needs to find the
headers, so why is it hard to do the same with symverbs?

Long run, I think Lustre at al should just become part of OFED,
similiar to what MPI does now.

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MST