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To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Hi Thomas,

> > I don't know if there is something defined in a Linux header which coul=
d
> help
> > to check if VFIO is supported. But in general, it's better to check for=
 a macro
> > belonging to the feature instead of checking kernel version.
>=20
> Not sure VFIO defines any macros anywhere, but I'll look into it, thanks.
>=20

There probably isn't. At least I don't see anything in commit log. So unles=
s there's a way to get config options from kernel at compile-time in usersp=
ace code, I don't think we can do anything else than kernel version check.

Best regards,
Anatoly Burakov
DPDK SW Engineer