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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Guo, Jia" <jia.guo@intel.com>
Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, jingjing.wu@intel.com,
	jianfeng.tan@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fix uevent montior issue
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:46:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3951509.LRgmqiM9ue@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <899b1116-cf19-249e-cc55-8993ef7729e6@intel.com>

12/02/2018 09:28, Guo, Jia:
> 
> On 2/9/2018 6:01 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 30/01/2018 11:01, Jeff Guo:
> >> udev could not detect remove and add event of device when hotplug in
> >> and out devices, that related with the fix about using pointer of
> >> rte_uio_pci_dev as dev_id instead of uio_device for irq device handler,
> >> that would result igb uio irq failure when kernel version after than 3.17.
> >> so this patch correct it by use kernel version check before handle the
> >> pci interrupt.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 6b9ed026a870 ("igb_uio: fix build with kernel <= 3.17")
> >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo@intel.com>
> >> ---
> >> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 17, 0)
> >>   	struct rte_uio_pci_dev *udev = (struct rte_uio_pci_dev *)dev_id;
> >>   	struct uio_info *info = &udev->info;
> >> -
> >> +#else
> >> +	struct uio_device *idev = (struct uio_device *)dev_id;
> >> +	struct uio_info *info = idev->info;
> >> +	struct rte_uio_pci_dev *udev = info->priv;
> >> +#endif
> > Can we avoid checking Linux version number?
> > This method won't work with kernel backports.
> i don't think that is a bug rather than a kernel feature parameter 
> change , so i am not sure if it will definitely a chance exist for the 
> kernel backport fix for that.

Features are also backported in some kernels.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-30 10:01 Jeff Guo
2018-01-31  2:15 ` Wu, Jingjing
2018-02-08 22:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-02-12  8:28   ` Guo, Jia
2018-02-12  9:46     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-02-13  9:32     ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-02-27  6:17       ` Guo, Jia
2018-02-27  7:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH V2] " Jeff Guo
2018-03-26 18:28   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-27  7:46     ` Guo, Jia
2018-03-27 17:10       ` Ferruh Yigit
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-30  9:55 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Jeff Guo

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