On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:30:55AM +0300, Jack Morgenstein wrote: > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 18:06, Jon Mason wrote: > > No, we currently duplicate all the scatterlist functionality. Including > > ncrypto.h would greatly simplify the backport headers, but it is a > > RHEL5.2/5.3 only solution. If this change is needed for all other > > backports, then a better solution will be needed. > > > Each backport has its OWN directory. The backports are not identical > for all kernels. There is absolutely no problem with handling backports > per kernel/per distribution. Therefore, the RHEL 5.2/5.3 solution can be > used for those backports alone, without affecting any of the others. > Other backports will have a different change.
Yes, the point I was trying to make is that the fix I have will only apply to RHEL5. If a more sweeping change is needed, then something else will need to be done. I believe the root issue with the reported was on RHEL5.3, so this will probably solve their problem unless they need it for all OFED supported releases. > For RHEL5.2/5.3, my concern is that if someone will actually write an ncrypto > kernel > application, and include ncrypto.h along with the infiniband headers, there > will be > compilation problems because the scatterlist functionality fixes will appear > twice. Excellent point. The patch I just sent out should prevent this from happening as well. > Specifically, OFED 1.4.1 has the following INDIVIDUAL/independent backports, > and > each one is handled differently: > 2.6.16 > 2.6.16_sles10 > 2.6.16_sles10_sp1 > 2.6.16_sles10_sp2 > 2.6.17 > 2.6.18 > 2.6.18-EL5.1 > 2.6.18-EL5.2 > 2.6.18-EL5.3 > 2.6.18_FC6 (also for EL5.0) > 2.6.18_suse10_2 > 2.6.19 > 2.6.20 > 2.6.21 > 2.6.22 > 2.6.22_suse10_3 > 2.6.23 > 2.6.24 > 2.6.25 > 2.6.26 > 2.6.9_U4 > 2.6.9_U5 > 2.6.9_U6 > 2.6.9_U7 > > - Jack _______________________________________________ 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
