Re: [Fault-injection-developer] Couple of issues downloading and building the FITH source code

[Rob R. <err...@li...>]

OK, got the source, and I'm now going through the build steps and
reading the documentation. In short, its way too TLT specific for a
general announcement on the LKML.

I haven't attempted to build it yet, but this is what I see so far that
needs to be fixed before the project is announced (in any form) to the
LKML:

1. Remove all mention & dependencies on TLT, carrierlinux, etc. from
everything. The README file is full of TLT & carrierlinux 'isms. If this
is going to be posted on LKML, the instructions and code had better work
on a stock kernel by applying relevant kernel patches. 

If you rely on the TLT or CGLE kernel no one on the LKML, outside of
OSDL developers, will take a second look at it.

The instructions need to be written so anyone can take a stock kernel
apply the relevant patches and make it work. For example, dprobes is
required, but the instruction don't clearly state that you need to apply
the patch to the stock kernel sources.

2. You need to break-out the required kernel patches from the user-space
components. Separate source tarballs & separate instructions, might be
one way to do it. Right now it's confusing from reading the README what
exactly you need to do in order to get going. At the very least you need
to build a new kernel with the right patches applied, and then make the
user-space components.

3. A lot of the info that's in the README should be in the INSTALL file.
The INSTALL file has good info, but is pretty much generic to running
./configure.

4. To get the best exposure on the LKML, it would be better to also
provide instructions on how to make it work on the 2.5 kernel. I would
think that would be just a matter of getting the patches working on the
2.5 kernel. This could be any area where we ask for community help in
making it work on 2.5. This shouldn't stop us from announcing, but after
listening to Greg K-H yesterday and my past experience this is the
conclusion I come to.

More comments to follow...stay tuned...

-RobR


On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:25, Rob Rhoads wrote:
> I'm attempting to download the source to FITH for building, but it
> appears that it is only available via checking out directly from CVS. It
> would be nice if you post a tarball of the source code to both the
> project web page and under the file section on the project page.
> 
> Also make me a member of the project (my SF account errhoads), so I
> don't have to monkey around with trying to get anonymous :pserver to
> work around the our stupid corporate firewall.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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