Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix compilation under RHEL 7.5

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 15:09 +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Hi Luca, Yuanhan,
> 
> On 03/02/2018 12:20 AM, Lee Roberts wrote:
> > Fix kni compilation under RHEL 7.5.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Roberts <lee.roberts@hpe.com>
> > ---
> >   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/compat.h | 5 +++++
> >   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/compat.h
> > b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/compat.h
> > index 3f8c0bc..6a6968d 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/compat.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/compat.h
> > @@ -101,6 +101,11 @@
> >   #undef NET_NAME_UNKNOWN
> >   #endif
> >   
> > +#if (defined(RHEL_RELEASE_CODE) && \
> > +	(RHEL_RELEASE_CODE >= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(7, 5)))
> > +#define ndo_change_mtu ndo_change_mtu_rh74
> > +#endif
> > +
> >   #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 11, 0)
> >   #define HAVE_SIGNAL_FUNCTIONS_OWN_HEADER
> >   #endif
> > 
> 
> Any chance we pick these patches in stable branches so that
> we can build them with RHEL 7.5 without disabling KNI?
> 
> I think it should apply cleanly on all of them, but I can send the
> backport patches for each of them if necessary.
> 
> Thanks,
> Maxime

Sure, I can have a look early next week for 16.11.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi