[Lustre-discuss] a version of lustre that works with RHEL55

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Brian O'Connor wrote:
> for reasons of QLogic HCA OFED+ compatibility I need to find a version 
> of lustre that that will work with the RHEL55 2.6.18-194 kernel.

That was kernel of choice for 1.8.5

> I guess I need to build lustre myself.
> 
> So first I have a couple of questions.
> -will the latest lustre src release work with rhel55?(2.6.18-194)

No.

> -how do I add OFED to the git build tree? NB I'll be adding  
> QLogic-Basic OFED+

There is a configure option for out of tree ofed path.

> Just adding RHEL55 in place of Centos56 fails at the kernel 'make rpm' 
> build stage
> 
> ...
> drivers/net/pppoe.c: In function 'pppoe_recvmsg':
> drivers/net/pppoe.c:941: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types 
> lacks a cast
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/8139cp.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/8139too.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/tun.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/dl2k.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/r8169.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/amd8111e.o
> drivers/net/r8169.c: In function 'rtl8169_init_one':
> drivers/net/r8169.c:3171: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from 
> pointer target type
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/s2io.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/netconsole.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/niu.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/virtio_net.o
>   LD      drivers/net/built-in.o
>   LD [M]  drivers/net/bnx2x.o
>   LD      drivers/built-in.o
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build)
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build)
> make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
> make

These are just warnings, I guess you skipped the errors.
I would expect the patches won't apply, and thus it fails.

Bye,
    Oleg
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Oleg Drokin
Senior Software Engineer
Whamcloud, Inc.