[Lustre-discuss] Latest RHEL kernel: won't make mgs module, and ko2iblnd not built for right OFED modules

[Chris Worley]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Chris Worley <worleys at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
>  > On Feb 29, 2008  07:49 -0700, Chris Worley wrote:
>  >  > Lustre 1.6.4.2, OFED 1.2.5.5, RHEL kernel 2.6.9.67.0.4.
>  >  >
>  >  > Configured with: --with-o2ib --with-ldiskfs
>  >  >
>  >  > mgs.ko is built but not wrapped into modules rpm, with an undefined
>  >  > external that should be from the lvfs module (lvfs_check_rdonly).
>  >
>  >  This appears that your kernel is not patched properly.

Never mind what I said below, you are correct.

Thanks,

Chris
>
>  I tried patching the kernel myself, then making Lustre, but found that
>  it too patched the kernel and didn't like the patches to be installed
>  first.  So, I returned to a pristine kernel and let Lustre's "make" do
>  the patching.
>
>  I figure not all the patching was proper, as I'm using an unsupported
>  RedHat kernel (the latest).
>
>  If there's documentation on how to control the patching, especially of
>  an unsupported kernel, please point me there.
>
>  The README in the toplevel directory pointed to a URL that no longer
>  exists, and the  PDF manual available from Sun was very slim in its
>  coverage of the build process.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Chris
>