[Linux-streams] LiS and Linux 2.6 (SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2)
dan_gora
Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:09:06 -0800

Hi All...

John Boyd,

I was reading on the list archive that you did some work with porting
LiS to kernel versions in the 2.6 range.

1) Is the work that you did captured in the last release, LiS 2.18.0?

2) Is it only in LiS 2.17.K?

3) Did you ever do anything with posting your changes to Sourceforge?
(there was one thread where you mentioned that you were going to post
your changes and more to a project on Sourceforge.)

I am being charged with getting LiS working on linux 2.6,
specifically SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2 for our company's products and
would like to avoid repeating other people's work if at all possible.
 Of course we'd be willing to post our changes once we are done so
that everyone doesn't have to suffer through the same thing now that
it seems that all "official" developement has ceased.

Speaking of official developement, what exactly is going on with LiS
nowdays?  Dave, did you turn over "source manager" duties to someone?
What exactly happens at this point?  Can anyone decree themselves the
holder of the "offical" tree?

I have a few changes that I did to LiS 2.18.0 to improve the
performance a bit on SMP systems, but frankly I don't know what to do
with them.  I don't really want to just post them as a set of patches
to the mailing list... That seems kind of klunky.  Should we start a
sourceforge site for LiS so that everyone has a place to centralize
the discussion and changes now that Dave has bowed out?

thanks-
dan

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Re: [Linux-streams] LiS and Linux 2.6 (SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2)
Dave Grothe
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:25:02 -0800

At 01:08 PM 1/12/2005, dan_gora wrote:


	Hi All...


	Speaking of official developement, what exactly is going on with LiS
	nowdays?  Dave, did you turn over "source manager" duties to someone?

Nope.  I just retired.

-- Dave

[Linux-streams] LiS and Linux 2.6 (SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2)
Paul Landay
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 03:55:02 -0800

Here are the steps I use to build LiS 2.18.0 on SuSE SLES9 / SuSE 9.1:

  # Download the latest kernel (e.g. 2.6.5-7.108) from suse.com
  # We saw problems with the original SuSE 9.1 kernel.

  # Make sure you have installed the matching RPMs for:
      kernel-source
      kernel-syms
    and at least one of
      kernel-default
      kernel-smp
      kernel-bigsmp

  # Fix up the kernel source tree for SuSE 9.1 2.6.5-7.108
    cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108
    make clean
    make mrproper
    make cloneconfig
    make modules_prepare

  # use 'smp' or 'bigsmp' instead of 'default' in the next command
  # to match the kernel you are using.
    cp -p /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108-obj/i386/default/Module.symvers \
      /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108/Module.symvers

  # Do the LiS build
    cd /usr/src
    tar -xzf LiS-2.18.0.tgz
    cd /usr/src/LiS-2.18

  make
    answer N to the third question and then reply:
      /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108
    instead of the default
  make install
  modprobe streams

  strtst

  # Known problems/issues:

    make uninstall
      does not remove /usr/lib*/lib*LiS*
      does not rmmod
      does not remove /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/*

   The change to strmsg.h from LiS 2.16.18 to LiS 2.18.0
   means all apps have to be recompiled.  We choose to
   back-level the strmsg.h so our old binaries worked.

Paul Landay

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