[ofa-general] Re: How to tell what OFED rev a distro derived IB modules?

[Moni Shoua]

Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> On Sunday 26 April 2009 21:01, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> In general, you should not use OFED userspace libraries with non-OFED kernel distributions.
>> That is hugely unfriendly and not really 'the linux way'..
>>
>> Jason
>>
> I know.  I did A LOT of work to avoid incompatibilities. This particular incompatibility went unnoticed until someone encountered it.
> 
> In general, though, the OFED distributions are tightly integrated packages which have undergone extensive QA on many Linux distributions.
> Taking pieces of them and mixing them with non-OFED packages is not recommended, as no QA is done on such mixtures.
> 
> - Jack
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So, Is there an easy way for upstream kernel users that want user space functionality?