[ofa-general] Possible bug of inkernel OFED of RHEL5.3?

[Bart Van Assche]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Yossi Etigin <yosefe at voltaire.com> wrote:
> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> So, is this a confirmation that the OFED in question (in the RHEL 5.3
>> kernel) is in fact broken?  Is the breakage serious enough that one
>> should want to avoid using that version?
>
> Liang's report is enough to show taht it indeed has a bug.
>
> Looks like the only affected case is setting an IPoIB interface to connected
> mode via sysfs. This bug can be avoid if you avoid using connected mode and make
> sure all  network/openib start scripts do not use connected mode.
>
> If you want to use connected mode, you'll probably want to upgrade the OFED version.

Replacing RHEL InfiniBand kernel drivers by OFED voids official RHEL
support. Shouldn't Red Hat fix this issue ?

Bart.