Re: [PATCH] compat: support RHEL6.3 as a build target

[Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This patch allows me to compile and load the latest compat modules on
>> RHEL6.3.  Users of compat on RHEL6 should note that you should set
>> CONFIG_COMPAT_KFIFO=n as those bits are not needed at all.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks! Any chance you can git fetch; git rebase; (ensuring you have
> 42faf2dc8d8 at tip) and then try running:
>
> ./bin/get-compat-kernels
>
> This can take ~10 minutes
>
> And then test compile your changes with:
>
> ./bin/ckmake
>
> And provide that as part of your commit log message?

I just did this and will post a v2 patch right now.

> We can likely add
> the RHEL kernels to the ./bin/get-compat-kernels if you can figure out
> a way to unpack them for any user out there on any Linux distribution.
> This way I can gate future patches from being merged unless they also
> give me a good set of results from ckmake.
>
> Thoughts ?

I like it.  I'll look into the guts of these scripts a bit more and
see what we can get added.
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