[openib-general] OFED 1.2 Questions

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Tziporet,
> 
> I'm in the process of adding the Chelsio T3 drivers to the OFED
> repository and I have a question:
> 
> The HowTo kernel section you posted on the wiki sez to add the new files
> to the repos directly via a git commit, but create patches for
> modifications to existing files and put the patches in the
> kernel_patches/fixes directory.  However, I don't see patches in that
> directory to modify the core Makefile/Kconfig for SDP or other new
> modules added for ofed.  So should I just modify infiniband/Makefile and
> Kconfig via the git commit that adds the new Chelsio files, or create a
> patch file and put it in kernel_patches/fixes?

Yes you can modify the Makefile/Kconfig directly.
Reason being, its always trivial to resolve conflicts there
when merging from upstream.
 
> Also, are there machines available with the various ofed supported
> distros installed that I can do compile testing for the Chelsio user
> lib?



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