On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:12:20PM -0500, Brian Long wrote: > Jeremy et al, > > I asked the openIB folks about your netlink vs. ioctl issue wrt. > Infiniband and they responded in the attached email. Any chance we can > have the openIB drivers inside the official FC5 initrd so I can try > kickstarting? I'll follow support channels wrt. updating initrd for > RHEL 4 U3 beta ;-) Brian, There's a bit more to it than just including the modules. First, loader2/moduleinfo.c will need to be modified to understand that "ib" is an infiniband device. You'll need to add DRIVER_MINOR_INFINIBAND too. This will allow you to list the ib drivers in module-info with "ib" as the device type (like eth and tr modules are listed now). Then loader2/modules.c will need to be modified to handle enumerating infiniband devices properly in loadModule() and writing out the proper alias lines in /etc/modprobe.conf in writeModulesConf(). Also, anaconda does attempt to get the HW address on network interfaces, so ./isys/getmacaddr.c:getMacAddr() will need to be modified to use the new interface. HTH. Cheers, Matt -- Matt Wilson rPath, Inc. msw@xxxxxxxxx
