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From: Jincheng Miao <jmiao@redhat.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] compatibility fallback and replacement of kernel function invoking
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:32:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1418182383-5744-1-git-send-email-jmiao@redhat.com> (raw)

The related kernel function is:
- pci_num_vf, it is introduced from upstream linux-2.6.34. For RHEL-based
kernel, it is defined from RHEL5.9.

- 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.

v3:
  Adjust pci_num_vf() introduced RHEL version number.
  Seperate "replace strict_strtoul with kstrtoul" into 3 patches for igb_uio,
kni, and xen_dom0. Add compat.h in kni and xen_dom0 for compatible with
older kernels.

v2:
  Merge these two patch in one patchset.
  Compatible with old kernel for kstrtoul.
  Compatible with RHEL6 for pci_num_vf.

Jincheng Miao (4):
  igb_uio: compatible with upstream longterm kernel and RHEL
  igb_uio: replace strict_strtoul with kstrtoul
  kni: replace strict_strtoul with kstrtoul
  xen_dom0: replace strict_strtoul with kstrtoul

 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/compat.h        |   11 ++++++++++-
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c       |    4 ++--
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/compat.h            |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_vhost.c         |    2 +-
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/xen_dom0/compat.h       |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/xen_dom0/dom0_mm_misc.c |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/compat.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/xen_dom0/compat.h

             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-10  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-10  3:32 Jincheng Miao [this message]
2014-12-10  3:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] igb_uio: compatible with upstream longterm kernel and RHEL Jincheng Miao
2014-12-10  3:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] igb_uio: replace strict_strtoul with kstrtoul Jincheng Miao
2014-12-10  3:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] kni: " Jincheng Miao
2014-12-10  8:39   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-10  8:48     ` Jincheng Miao
2014-12-10  9:18       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-10  9:39         ` Jincheng Miao
2014-12-10  3:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] xen_dom0: " Jincheng Miao
2014-12-10  8:39   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-10  3:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] compatibility fallback and replacement of kernel function invoking Zhang, Helin
2014-12-10  4:15 ` Jincheng Miao

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