[ofa-general] el5.3 backport of 1.4(.0)

[Stijn De Weirdt]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:26 +0200, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
> >> Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
> >>     
> >>> hi all,
> >>>
> >>> i am preparing an upgrade from SL5.2 to SL5.3 (which are EL5 clones).
> >>> one thing we would also like to look at is switching from OFED 1.3.2 to
> >>> OFED 1.4. and one thing i noticed is that the necessary 5.3 backport
> >>> fixes only exist in the current 1.4.1 daily snapshots.
> >>> did anyone already try to backport the el5.3 backport fixes from 1.4.1
> >>> to 1.4.0?
> >>>
> >>> many thanks,
> >>>
> >>> stijn
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Its the same tree so backports of RHEL 5.3 from 1.4.1 should work on 1.4 too
> >>
> >>     
> > hi tziporet,
> >
> > i actually already tried that, moving the following files from a recent
> > 1.4.1 daily to the 1.4.0 ofa_kernel src rpm
> > ofed_scripts/get_backport_dir.sh
> > kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/
> > kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/
> >
> > but rebuilding this gave the following error:
> > (i have to say that the kernel i used was 2.6.18-128.1.1 instead the
> > original el5.3 2.6.18-128)
> >
> >         /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.4/kernel_patches/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/mlx4_en_0099_no_multiqueue.patch
> > patching file drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c
> > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
> > Apply anyway? [n]
> > Skipping patch.
> > 2 out of 2 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file
> > drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c.rej
> > patching file drivers/net/mlx4/en_tx.c
> > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
> > Apply anyway? [n]
> > Skipping patch.
> > 4 out of 4 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file
> > drivers/net/mlx4/en_tx.c.rej
> > patching file drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
> > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
> > Apply anyway? [n]
> > Skipping patch.
> > 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file
> > drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_en.h.rej
> > Failed to apply
> > patch: /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.4/kernel_patches/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/mlx4_en_0099_no_multiqueue.patch
> >
> > it is also a patch file that doesn't exist in the el5.2 backport, so i
> > was thinking that this was a patch for 1.4.1, not 1.4.0, that's why i
> > asked it here.
> >
> > anyway, many thanks for looking into this!
> >
> > stijn
> >
> >   
> Hi Stijn,
> 
hi vladimir,

> You have, probably, copied RHEL 5.3 backports into ofa_kernel-1.4 
> directory where the patches (RHEL5.0) already were applied.
> 
i did what the ofed_patch.sh script does to make a new src.rpm, but
instead of patching i copied said file and directories.

> In any case, it is better to take the latest ofa_kernel src rpm instead 
> of updating source rpm coming from OFED-1.4.
> The difference is RHEL5.3 support and some bug fixes (see git log).
thanks (and ofa_kernel builds ok)

stijn

> Regards,
> Vladimir
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