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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Steve WIse <swise at opengridcomputing.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/21] ofed_1_2 - Chelsio Backport to SLES9SP3
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Michael,
> 
> Is there something magic about stopping at 2.6.11?  

Yes. AFAIK IB subsystem was added to upstream kernel in 2.6.11.
So our kernel.org support has grown historically from there,
and we just added a couple of older distro kernels.
	
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