> > > > There is no way to enable this option via make menuconfig. It is only > > enabled if some other subsystem requires it by adding this to their > > Kconfig: > > > > select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR > > I know, but what I'm saying is that distros tend to enable all drivers > so in practice it will be enabled. >
Perusing the 2.6.20 src, I only see one subsystem using this other than my driver. That's arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c. So it will only be turned on for IA64 builds. Also, how will a user running 2.6.20 from kernel.org turn it on? There's no way via make menuconfig. Believe me, I'd love to get rid this problem, but I haven't seen a good other than backporting it everywhere. > > I think the best solution is to treat it as a backport, change the names > > (either explicitly or with a #define trick) and back-port it to every > > kernel version we're going to support. > > I'm not yet convinced the problem exists. I would suggest look at RHEL5. > If that has genalloc enabled its a good indication that you don't > need to put a copy of it in OFED. > Is RHEL5 released? I don't have it. Steve. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
