[Lustre-discuss] mismatching versions between kernel and client

[Shi Jin]

> You have two choices.  Either upgrade the kernel on
> your system to
> 2.6.18_92.1.17.el5 (which is the suggested route as it gets
> you a newer
> kernel with more recent patches applied) or rebuild lustre
> from the
> lustre-source rpm using the kernel-devel for the kernel you
> wish to use.
> 
Thank you very much.
I actually wanted to build the lustre module for my kernel. But when I tried to download the lustre-source, the RPM comes with is a specific kernel version associated with it. Is it OK for me to download the source where the kernel version from the file name is different from the kernel version I am using?
Specifically, shall I get  lustre-client-source-1.6.7-2.6.16.60_0.31_lustre.1.6.7_bigsmp.i686.rpm? (but its kernel version does not match mine) Or shall I get  rhel5-i686-client-lustre-1.6.7.tar.gz (is it different from sles10-i686-client-lustre-1.6.7.tar.gz?)? Does rhel5 covers all minor version changes such as rhel5.3? 

Thank you very much for your help.
Shi Jin