Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:01 -0800, Jeff Becker wrote: > >> Hi Brian >> > > Hi Jeff, > > >> Yup - that was me. >> > > /me waves jeff. :-) > > >> I usually build my kernel first (usually with NFS). Then I build OFED. >> > > Same here. > > >> If I turn off NFS(RDMA), it doesn't affect my kernel. >> > > No, but it will affect the next thing (i.e. kernel module(s)) you build > with your kernel source and kernel-ib-devel. Perhaps I am doing this > wrongly, but I have the kernel-ib-devel paths first (i.e. before the > kernel ones) so the autoconf.h is being picked up there and the item of > fallout I noticed first was that the bits in my module that wanted > CONFIG_SYSCTL defined, broke. My kernel's autoconf.h defines it, but > the OFED one (without nfsrdma) undefines it. > > >> I don't do this >> with the install.pl script, but rather by hand (running configure && >> make && make install in my OFED directory). >> > > Yeah. I rpmbuild --rebuild the SRPM. Kernel and kernel-ib[-devel] go > fine. It just this third module I want to build against them both that > goes blooey. > > >> I thought I needed it for proper configuration of NFSRDMA. >> > > It could be. But the problem is that it's used for all sorts of other > stuff and #undef'ing it in the OFED autoconf.h contradicts what the > kernel definition wants. > > Thots? >
I put it in, because I thought it would fix some trouble configuring sysctls and rpc debugging properly. I can check again to see if it's really needed. -jeff > b. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
