[openib-general] Why doesn't the 24-kernel actually compile on 2.4 kernels?

Thu Apr 1 18:15:18 PST 2004

Roland Dreier wrote:

>    Mike> After a build, with various compile fixes, without ipoib,
>    Mike> the modules have undefined symbols:
>
>    Mike> /lib/modules/2.4.25/kernel/drivers/infiniband/core/ib_services.o:
>    Mike> unresolved symbol set_user_nice
>
>Hmm... looks like newer kernels don't have set_user_nice.  For basic
>testing you can just delete the call to set_user_nice in
>services_thread.c (or change it to an assignment to current->nice I guess?).
>  
>
I'll poke at it and see what I get.

>    Mike> EXTRA_FLAGS does include -DIN_TREE_BUILD...  but don't seem
>    Mike> to make it into the compile line since I don't see how they
>    Mike> would ever be included.  Here's the Makefile in ulp/ipoib:
>
>    Mike> EXTRA_CFLAGS += \
>    Mike>     -I$(TOPDIR)/drivers/infiniband/include \
>    Mike>     #-DRHEL_ROUTE_FLOW_API \
>    Mike>     -DIN_TREE_BUILD \
>    Mike>     -DTS_HOST_DRIVER -D_NO_DATA_PATH_TRACE
>
>This one is your fault I think :)  Putting that "#" in the front of a
>line in the middle of a variable assignment causes make to ignore the
>rest of the assignment (since it skips the "\" at the end of the line
>as part of the comment).  Better to just delete the
>-DRHEL_ROUTE_FLOW_API line.
>  
>
Yep, that was it. 

-Mike

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