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From: Guy Coates <gmpc-5fLPn3lgkryFxr2TtlUqVg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: rdr-zcUZCMB5SQOVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org,
	linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: getting path to backport directory
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:35:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC31844.8030304@sanger.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ac28072.jEyJX+IRBrF1KkkL%john.gregor-h88ZbnxC6KDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

John A. Gregor wrote:
> "Robert D. Russell" <rdr-zcUZCMB5SQOVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> A general question on getting the correct backport.
>>
>> On my machine, if I do "uname -r" I get
>> 2.6.18-128.el5
>>
>> If I do "cat /etc/redhat-release" I get
>> CentOs release 5.3 (Final)
>>
>> If I look in "/usr/src/ofa_kernel/kernel_addons/backport"
>> the subdirectory I need to use for the current kernel is:
>> 2.6.18-EL5.3
>>
>> My question:  Is there somewhere in the system where I can
>> find (or generate) the string "2.6.18-EL5.3"?
>> I want to put that in my scripts so they will automatically
>> pick it up whenever we change versions (as we just did when
>> going to Centos -- it used to be 2.6.18-EL5.2 in the RedHat
>> version we were running before).  At present I have to edit
>> these scripts by hand, and that's a lousy way to do business.
>

You can force the ofa-kernel build system to use a specific backport by doing:

ofed_scripts/ofed_patch.sh --kernel-version=2.6.18-EL5.3
./configure ; make ; make install

That is handy if the kernel version contains extra bits that confuses the 
ofed_patch script.

Cheers,

Guy



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29 20:15 getting path to backport directory Robert D. Russell
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909291613310.13129-yQ+R4xhlqLEyozb/sh1beDe48wsgrGvP@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-29 21:05   ` Steve Wise
2009-09-29 21:47   ` John A. Gregor
     [not found]     ` <4ac28072.jEyJX+IRBrF1KkkL%john.gregor-h88ZbnxC6KDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-30  8:35       ` Guy Coates [this message]

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