[Lustre-discuss] OFED 1.1 and 1.2

[Kit Westneat]

Hi Liang,

Are there any plans to release something like the ibvers.sh script with 
Lustre? I think that having an easy automated workaround, even if it is 
a hack, is better then having none. Even just some documentation about 
the problem would be helpful I think. From what I can tell, the extra 
Module.symvers functionality was added in kernel 2.6.17, so this bug not 
only affects RHEL4 but also SLES10. I'm glad to know it is a known issue 
though, and I am not just crazy :-)

Thanks,
Kit

Liang Zhen gmail wrote:
> Hi Kit,
> Yes we have met this problem for kernel doesn't support extra
> Module.symvers file, there are some discussing on this:
> https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12316
> Openfabric has discussing on this too:
> http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/ewg/2007-February/002701.html
> the resolution is somehow hacking, so we haven't put it in release.
>
> Regards
> Liang
>
>
> Kit Westneat wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had problems with missing modules errors, but the problem I had was 
>> that the Lustre compilation process was picking up the symbol 
>> versions of the original OFED stack, and not the new symbols. What I 
>> finally had to do was edit /usr/src/linux/Modules.symvers and delete 
>> every line containing the word infiniband. After that I ran configure 
>> --with-o2ib=/usr/src/openib, and it worked fine. You can tell if you 
>> are running into the same problem by looking at /var/log/messages. 
>> There will be a bunch of messages saying something to the effect of 
>> version mismatch with various functions.
>>
>> I'm not sure if anyone else is running into that, but it took me 
>> forever to figure out.
>>
>> - Kit
>>
>> Thomas Blum wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> at the moment I'm trying to get a system running with 
>>> 2.6.16-46-0.14_lustre.1.6.2smp and OFED1.2 but experience a lot of 
>>> problems. The first is described in bugzilla 13639. To build the 
>>> OFED stack you have to do some fixes in OFED scripts or do a 
>>> recompile of the Lustre kernel with a new naming like 
>>> 2.6.16.46-0.14-lustre.1.6.2smp. After that you will be able to build 
>>> the OFED packages but you also have to recompile the lustre-modules 
>>> and lustre "tools" which doesn't work well at the moment because it 
>>> seems that some modules are missing and are not integrated into the 
>>> new rpms.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> H. N. HARAKE schrieb:
>>>      
>>>> Did anyone managed to build packages  of the OFED 1.2.X on any of  
>>>> these kernels:
>>>> I believe that 1.1 and 1.2 should  supported as mentioned by the  
>>>> release notes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2.6.16-27-0.9_lustre-1.6.0.1smp
>>>> 2.6.16-46-0.14_lustre.1.6.2smp
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards
>>>> H. N. Harake
>>>>
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