From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guy Coates Subject: Re: getting path to backport directory Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:35:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4AC31844.8030304@sanger.ac.uk> References: <4ac28072.jEyJX+IRBrF1KkkL%john.gregor@qlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4ac28072.jEyJX+IRBrF1KkkL%john.gregor-h88ZbnxC6KDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: rdr-zcUZCMB5SQOVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org John A. Gregor wrote: > "Robert D. Russell" 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 -- Dr. Guy Coates, Informatics System Group The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 x 6925 Fax: +44 (0)1223 496802 -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html