From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33E5677B for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:30:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s9V7dJBJ002768 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:39:19 -0400 Received: from dhcp-66-71-51.eng.nay.redhat.com.com (dhcp-66-71-51.eng.nay.redhat.com [10.66.71.51] (may be forged)) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s9V7dHpI013628; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:39:18 -0400 From: Jincheng Miao To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:37:17 +0800 Message-Id: <1414741039-3531-1-git-send-email-jmiao@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] compatibility fallback and replacement of kernel function invoking X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:30:21 -0000 The related kernel function is: - pci_num_vf, it is introduced from upstream linux-2.6.34. For RHEL6's kernel, it is defined from RHEL6.0. - kstrtoul, this function is united kernel API to replace strict_strtoul in the furture. It is introduced from linux-2.6.39. For RHEL6, it is defined from RHEL6.4. This patchset do some compatiblity work for these two functions, and replace strict_strtoul which is depleted from linux-3.18. v2: Merge these two patch in one patchset. Compatible with old kernel for kstrtoul. Compatible with RHEL6 for pci_num_vf. Jincheng Miao (2): igb_uio: compatible with upstream longterm kernel and RHEL6 eal: replace strict_strtoul with kstrtoul lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/compat.h | 12 +++++++++++- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c | 4 ++-- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_vhost.c | 2 +- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/xen_dom0/dom0_mm_misc.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)