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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
	Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: add kernel version function
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:03:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180216100304.3335cb65@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21fb91002768a627d9c7f3d81e0c8a12fbf6811f.1518684427.git.nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:47:27 +0100
Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com> wrote:

> Use a function to retrieve the version of the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>

This type of logic will run into problems with Enterprise and vendor kernels.
What about users using older kernels with OFED? What about case where kernel
MLX drivers have been backported?

In general, it is better to adapt to the environment the code is running
in. Try the new feature, if it fails then log a message (at info level)
and fallback to the other strategy.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-16 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-15  8:47 Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-02-15  8:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: fix link status to use wait to complete Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-02-16 10:49   ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-16 12:08     ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-02-16 10:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: add kernel version function Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-16 18:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-02-19  7:42   ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] net/mlx5: cleanup link status Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-03-19 19:15   ` Shahaf Shuler
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] net/mlx5: remove kernel version check Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] net/mlx5: fix link status behavior Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-03-13 21:54   ` Yongseok Koh
2018-03-14 12:18     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-03-14 17:40       ` Yongseok Koh
2018-03-14 19:00         ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-03-14 12:22     ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-03-15 18:08   ` Yongseok Koh
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] net/mlx5: fix link status to use wait to complete Nelio Laranjeiro

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