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

Thu Apr 1 18:34:39 PST 2004

I would be glad to put the 2.4.25 version (under RH 9.0) out on the 
site, if someone else would like to have a go at it.

Steve...

>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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