Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> Tziporet, >> >> I'm in the process of adding the Chelsio T3 drivers to the OFED >> repository and I have a question: >> >> The HowTo kernel section you posted on the wiki sez to add the new files >> to the repos directly via a git commit, but create patches for >> modifications to existing files and put the patches in the >> kernel_patches/fixes directory. However, I don't see patches in that >> directory to modify the core Makefile/Kconfig for SDP or other new >> modules added for ofed. So should I just modify infiniband/Makefile and >> Kconfig via the git commit that adds the new Chelsio files, or create a >> patch file and put it in kernel_patches/fixes? >> > > Yes you can modify the Makefile/Kconfig directly. > Reason being, its always trivial to resolve conflicts there > when merging from upstream. > > After you check its working if you changed the general Makfiles/Kconfig please send the patches to Vlad. >> Also, are there machines available with the various ofed supported >> distros installed that I can do compile testing for the Chelsio user >> lib? >> >> You can compile on the OFA server - but this has only Ubuntu OS. For testing in other OSes you should setup systems in your company.
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