Suggested nvme driver version to compile into RHEL/CentOS 2.6.32-431 (or similar)

Suggested nvme driver version to compile into RHEL/CentOS 2.6.32-431 (or similar)

[Jeff Johnson]

Greetings,

Is there a version of the nvme driver that is known to compile into a
RHEL/Centos 2.6.32-431 or similarly aged kernel version?

There is a version of software that I want to test nvme device operation
with and it precludes me from jumping to 3.x kernels.

Thanks,

--Jeff

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Suggested nvme driver version to compile into RHEL/CentOS 2.6.32-431 (or similar)

[Keith Busch]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Is there a version of the nvme driver that is known to compile into a
> RHEL/Centos 2.6.32-431 or similarly aged kernel version?

Is there something wrong with the driver Red Hat included with
2.6.32-431? I'm sure RH provides the source for it.

If you're going for a pre-RHEL6.5, there's this compatibility repo:

git.infradead.org/users/kbusch/nvme-compatibility.git

It hasn't been updated in a long while, though. I intended to better
maintain it as a reference for the older distros, but the upstream driver
is using so many newer kernel APIs that it became too much work to keep
this back-port aligned (I'd still take outside contributions!)