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[Richard Carlson <>]

Hi Scott;

No problem, a lot of folks on the NDT list also monitor the web100  
list.  I'm just pointing out that the Web100 project developed/ 
maintain the kernel patches and can you may find more expertise on  
that list.  The NDT project uses the data the Web100 kernel provides  
to analyze e2e performance.

Rich

On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Morris, Scott wrote:

> Thanks for the info.  Sorry about sending to this list, but this is
> where we were directed.
>
> Scott E. Morris
> Enterprise Communications Engineer
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Carlson 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:22 PM
> To: Scott S Bertilson
> Cc: Holloway, Fred; 
> ;
>  Morris, Scott; Escher,
> Andrew
> Subject: Re: Request for help compiling web100 kernel on RHEL 5.3
>
> Fred;
>
> As Scott says, you need to look at the individual reject files to
> figure out what changes RedHat made to the files.  It shouldn't be too
> difficult, but could be time consuming.  The usual suggestion is to
> grab the native kernel from the kernel.org site instead of using
> distro patched kernels.
>
> BTW, this type of message should go to the 
>
> site instead of the NDT list.
>
> Rich
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Scott S Bertilson wrote:
>
> > I have done this a few times on earlier
> > versions of RHEL and have had no problems
> > with what I suggest here.
> > Looked all the patches over.  They should be
> > applied manually with an editor.  The header
> > file errors are almost assuredly just the
> > result of RedHat back-porting a few extra items
> > to the lists of definitions.  When editing in
> > the changes to the code, just make sure that
> > arguments to the added code are still avail-
> > able in the code to be modified.  Thankfully
> > that's a very small, contained set of changes
> > to apply.
> >                         Scott
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0400, Holloway, Fred wrote:
> > > Distro: RHEL 5.3
> > > Kernel: 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5PAE
> > > Patch:  web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch
> > >
> > > Following these instructions
> http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/RPMPackagingOtherSofwareCookB
> ook
> > > Description:
> > >
> > > Trying to patch existing kernel with web100 patch provided by
> > > web100.org.
> > >
> > > When trying to patch the kernel source with the web100 patch I get
> > > the following failed chunks.
> > >
> > > (the reject files are attached).
> > >
> > > + echo 'Patch #4000 (web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch):'
> > > Patch #4000 (web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch):
> > > + patch -p1 -s
> > > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/
> > > netlink.h.rej
> > > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/
> > > sysctl.h.rej
> > > 1 out of 25 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/ipv4/
> > > tcp_input.c.rej
> > > 1 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/ipv6/
> > > tcp_ipv6.c.rej
> > > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19281 (%prep)
> > >
> > >
> > > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Fred
>
> Richard Carlson
>
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> Ann Arbor, MI  48104
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Richard Carlson

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