[ofa-general] no kernel_patches/backport/2.6.5_sles9_sp3

[Diego Guella]

----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brian J. Murrell" <Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM>
>On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 08:38 +0200, Diego Guella wrote:
>>
>> I think it would be better to print a warning, and ask the user if the process should continue or not.
>
>Why, when the build is going to fail ultimately with some kind of
>compiler error?
>
>> In the past I installed OFED 1.0 on Suse Linux 9.3 Professional (an unsupported operating system), and the only change I done was 
>> to
>> the installation script, to make it recognize SL 9.3Pro as SLES.
>
>That's different.  The non-support didn't result in a build failure,
>complete with compiler errors and all.
>
>> Actually, it would be much better if the config process stops, prints a warning, print a list of supported operating systems, and
>> then let the user choose which operating system should OFED be compiled for.
>
>Why?  When the kernel I am trying to compile for is SLES9 and recognized
>as such and it is known to result in a complete build failure?  What
>could I possibly answer to the prompt to make it succeed?
>
>This is not a case of a mis-detection.  It correctly detects the kernel
>source as SLES9.  It's a simple matter that there is no support in OFED
>1.3 for SLES9 and the result is a completely broken build.

You're right. This is a different scenario. In this case the build is known to fail.
In my case the config script prevented me to build, but the build was possible.

>Now, if you had patches that make it work, send them upstream and then
>the supported status of OFED 1.3 could change.  But lacking that, no
>amount of pausing and prompting is going to fix the basic issue here.

You're right. Sorry for the noise.