[openib-general] [PATCH RFC 00/21] ofed_1_2 - Chelsio Backport to SLES9SP3

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>:
> Subject: [PATCH RFC 00/21] ofed_1_2 - Chelsio Backport to SLES9SP3
> 
> 
> Here is the series to back-port the cxgb3 and iw_cxgb3 drivers to
> SLES9SP3.  Sorry for the large patch count, but each patch is very
> small and updates or backports a specific file or service needed by the
> chelsio drivers.
> 
> It is missing one big part however: netevent notification support for
> neighbour and next hop changes.  I'm pondering how to support this
> outside the kernel.  I did port the netevent notifier service, but no
> notifications are done as of yet.  So this is TBD.  But the drivers load
> ok on SLES9SP3 and I'll be testing soon.
> 
> Michael, if you have time, please review the various additions/changes
> I've made and tell me what you think.  Just trying to get some feedback
> as I go along with these backports...

BTW, Steve, I wouldn't start working on backports from SLES9.
I'd start with 2.6.19 and go back to 2.6.11 over kernel.org versions,
just making sure they build (we have this build environment on openfabrics.org,
or its easy to check all versions out from kernel.org git).
In this way you get incrementtall a host of data on what is and what isn't in
which kernel version.

Then adding support for a distro is just a matter of finding a closest
kernel.org kernel and mostly removing stuff that distro backported from newer kernels.

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MST