Re: [Scst-devel] iscsi_scst: Unknown symbol backport_dependency_symbol

[Carsten A. <car...@ae...>]

Hi Bart

On 07/17/18 16:23, Bart Van Assche wrote:

> MOFED is most useful for people who have a support contract with
> Mellanox. If you don't have such a support contract I recommend to build
> and run SCST against an upstream Linux kernel. 

I see and I was not aware of that - and I'm not sure that buying cards
with warranty by Mellanox already counts as a support contract.

> Is the kernel version
> that you mentioned in your e-mail a vanilla kernel (from kernel.org) or
> a Debian kernel (that means, a kernel that includes Debian patches)? In
> the latter case, there may be an issue with one of the Debian IB
> patches. Have you tried to install a vanilla kernel and to build and run
> SCST against that kernel? Binary images of vanilla kernels are available
> in the Debian testing and unstable repositories, e.g. package
> linux-image-4.17.0-1.
> 

I've tried the stock Debian kernel currently based on 4.9.110 but have
not had a look at the applied patches yet.

Then, I'll go back to testing without MOFED for now, first with the
stretch-backports kernel (4.16.x) and if that does not work, with a
vanilla kernel.

Any suggestions which scst version I should try? Back to 3.2.x, 3.3.x
from the SVN branch or "bleeding edge"?

Cheers

Carsten

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