[ofa-general] Trouble installing OFED1.2-rc3 ib-bonding with kernel2-6.18-8.1.4.el5

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

Looks fixed in
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/OFED-1.2-20070530-0809.tgz.

Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Wong [mailto:jwong at datallegro.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:22 AM
> To: Peter Kjellstrom; general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Cc: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Moni Shoua; Moni Levy
> Subject: RE: [ofa-general] Trouble installing OFED1.2-rc3 
> ib-bonding with kernel2-6.18-8.1.4.el5
> 
> Is there a workaround for this problem?  Will there be a patch to the
> current release?  Will this be fixed in the next release?
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kjellstrom [mailto:cap at nsc.liu.se] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:43 PM
> To: general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Cc: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Jeffrey Wong; Moni Shoua; Moni Levy
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Trouble installing OFED1.2-rc3 ib-bonding
> with kernel2-6.18-8.1.4.el5
> 
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
> > Moni S,
> >
> > The ib-bonding configuration process seems too picky, should we just
> > apply RHEL5 patches if we see a *el5* kernel?  In other 
> words, change:
> >
> > $ fgrep 2.6.18 linux/configure
> >         2.6.18-1.2747.el5*|2.6.18-8.el5*|2.6.18-*.*.fc6)
> >
> > to:
> >
> >         2.6.18-*el5*|2.6.18-*.*.fc6)
> 
> Why mix in non-el5 kernels? 2.6.18-2747 and similar are beta 
> kernels (fc
> 
> naming left-over) and stuff with fc6 in it is clearly not el5. Update
> kernels 
> for el5 (before el5u1) should be named 2.6.18-8.x.y.el5, so 
> maybe: "2.6.18-8.*el5"?
> 
> /Peter
>