[ofa-general] Re: Trouble installing OFED1.2 with kernel

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 03:59 -0400, Jeffrey Wong wrote:
> I see. So I should have never renamed my kernel from 2.6.18.8 to 2.6.18.8-el5_x86.  So this will install once I rename my kernel back to 2.6.18.8?
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 

Yes,
The pattern 2.6.18-*el5* used by configure script to select backport
patches. There is a differens between backport patches for 2.6.18* from
kernel.org and 2.6.18 from RHEL5.0.

Regards,
Vladimir


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il]
> Sent: Tue 5/1/2007 3:44 AM
> To: Jeffrey Wong
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin; general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: Trouble installing OFED1.2 with kernel
>  
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 10:22 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Quoting Jeffrey Wong <jwong at datallegro.com>:
> > > Subject: RE: Trouble installing OFED1.2 with kernel
> > > 
> > > I have downloaded the kernel src from
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.8.tar.gz
> > > I have gunzip and untarred the directory.
> > > 
> > > In the file linux-2.6.18.8/include/linux/fs.h.  Here is the structure
> > > definition of inode.  When I look below the i_private ptr does not exist. 
> > > Please advise.
> > 
> > Yes but that kernel would be named 2.6.18.8, not 2.6.18-8.el5.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Jeff,
> If you named the kernel from kernel.org in 2.6.18-*el5* manner then the
> backport patches for RedHat 5.0 will be applied by OFED-1.2. This is the
> reason of your failures. 
> 
> So, to fix this rename you kernel and then you can install OFED-1.2 with
> ipath and ipoib.
> 
>