[Openswan Users] Do I need to patch the kernel to build OCF with Openswan?

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Ankit Parikh wrote:

> same version of the kernel? Which one is recommended...

You are goingto build openswan with OCF for the 2.6.18.8 kernel. Yes, I
would use the 2.6.18.8 kernel for that.

I am afraid you might be a bit in over you head trying to make OCF to work.

Paul

> > On 7/18/07, Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Ankit Parikh wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am now using 2.6.18.8 version of the kernel now...
> > > >
> > > > Now i did make KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/'uname -r'/build module minstall
> > >
> > >
> > > > and got the following error:
> > >
> > > > I saw the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/build:
> > > >
> > > > build is a symbolic link which points to
> > > > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.elf-i686,but when in /usr/src/ there is no
> > > > directory called kernels...
> > >
> > > That is because you don't have an RHEL5 kernel package installed. If you
> > > are compiling a custom kernel from source, then point KERNELSRC= to that
> > > source directory.
> > >
> > > > does that mean that the kernel source is not there in the directory
> > > and I
> > > > need to recompile the kernel? Btw..I am using RHEL 5 now and this is
> > > the
> > > > default kernel installed with RHEL 5. I haven't recompiled the kernel.
> > >
> > >
> > > You will have to recompile your own kernel.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Ankit Parikh
> > MS, Computer Science
> > University of Southern California
> > Los Angeles
> > California
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> >
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