> Quoting Yosef Etigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] installer: update kernel symbol versions > > Because, these are part of another package, touching them is wrong. > > External modules will have to solve it in some other way. It should be > > possible > > - it's all just scripts, for the most part. For example, for all I care, > > build > > script for external module can catenate ofed and kernel symvers, build and > > then > > split them back. Already better than OFED doing permanent changes. > > > > The problem is that this is not applicable for old kernels.
Why not? This should be applicable to all kernels with a bit of work. > Anyone using rhas4 must change his version anyway. version of what? > Another method: > The kernel-ib-devel will provide a patch that a user can apply to his > Module.symvers, to update it with the new versions. No, I don't think we can call that a solution. Anyway, I just looked at kernel 2.6.9, and I see there: scripts/Makefile.modpost:symverfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers So it seems that just by setting symverfile=mysymverfile on makefile command line you should be able to force it to pick a symbol version file from an alternate location. In any case, this is something that *the external module* should do, not OFED itself. -- MST _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
