From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
dev@dpdk.org, David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
Daxue Gao <daxuex.gao@intel.com>,
Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH dpdk-kmod] linux/igb_uio: fix build with kernel 5.18
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:26:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2edc95f6-2101-42f3-0d30-2fc185659752@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221216093345.03b72dcb@hermes.local>
On 12/16/2022 5:33 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:57:32 +0000
> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com> wrote:
>
>> In Linux kernel v5.18, "pci-dma-compat.h" wrapper file is removed [1].
>>
>> Some APIs in that wrapper file were used by igb_uio kernel module and
>> kernel module build fails after mentioned commit.
>>
>> Fixed build for v5.18 by replacing APIs in igb_uio.
>>
>> Replaced APIs are available in Linux v4.4 (minimum Linux kernel version
>> supported by DPDK), so no Linux version check is needed.
>>
>
> Makes sense, but lets put the correct versions in the commit description.
> DPDK should not be trying to support unsupported kernel versions.
>
> 5.18 is End of Life now and so the one that matters is really 6.0.
>
> Current DPDK 22 should be supporting last supported LTS which
> in January will be 4.14
Agree on this, but officially in documents it still says 4.4, when doc
updated I can update commit log too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-18 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-16 11:57 Ferruh Yigit
2022-12-16 17:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-12-18 14:26 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2022-12-22 15:35 ` Luca Boccassi
2023-02-05 17:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
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