[Users] Issues installing iSER initiator on a Scientific Linux 6.4 (OFED 3.5-2) box

[Jingcha Joba]

Hi folks,

I am trying to install OFED 3.5-2 along with iSER initiator on a machine
which has Scientific Linux 6.4 running kernel 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64. This
machine has 2 ConnectX -3 cards and a Qlogic Infiniband card. The objective
is to use iSER on one of those two ConnectX cards.

Though I can smoothly install OFED 3.5-2, it didn't install iSER. Looking
closely in the install script, I noticed that iSER is available for
installation only if the kernel version is > 3.5

I manually "flagged" iSER to be available for the kernel I am using in the
install script, only to have issue with the installation of compat-rdma.

/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:279:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:291:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:296:
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type


I don't want to upgrade my machine as I would have to reinstall all the
other software for this machine. And also because OFED 3.5-2 clearly states
that minimal QA testing had been done for kernel 3.5.

Also I don't want to use MNLX OFED, as it would make my qlogic infiniband
cards inaccessible.

What should I do to solve this issue I have?

Thanks,
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Jing
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