[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] modules compilation status for OFED 1.2

[Hoang-Nam Nguyen]

Hi,
> We stay with same build process but the backport patches give a solution
> for such cases.
> Michael Tsirkin can help you how we solved such problems with other
> kernel code we needed.
I need to be more specific here: ibmebus requires two symbols in
arch/ppc64/kernel/dma.c to be exported, which means one really needs
to rebuild and install the patched kernel. As far as I understood
from Michael, when we looked at ofed-1.1, that approach is not
supported by ofed build process.
Regards
Nam