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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_af_packet: add compile-time checks for kernel-specific options
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:14:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1857540.S8Y96DUbY1@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <128892442.7P4I1l0Tzy@xps13>

2014-12-05 17:37, Thomas Monjalon:
> 2014-12-05 11:24, John W. Linville:
> > On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:30:53AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > > 
> > > 2014-12-04 16:42, John W. Linville:
> > > > This allows the PMD to compile with kernels that don't support the
> > > > options in question.  The "#if defined(...)" lines are a bit ugly,
> > > > but I don't know of any better way to accomplish the task.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
> > > >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to enable compilation of this PMD in default configuration?
> > > I guess it shouldn't fail anymore with this patch?
> > 
> > Yes, I believe so.  I checked the kernel git history for when each
> > definition was included.  Everything else was older than the 2.6.32
> > kernel.
> > 
> > I think you can reenable this PMD in the common_linuxapp config file
> > if you like.  I'll send a patch if you prefer for me to do so.
> 
> OK, I'm going do it.

Applied with default config change to enable the PMD.

Thanks
-- 
Thomas

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-05 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-04 21:42 John W. Linville
2014-12-05  3:46 ` Neil Horman
2014-12-05  9:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-05 16:24   ` John W. Linville
2014-12-05 16:37     ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-05 17:29       ` [dpdk-dev] Accessing Virtual Function Device on Guest Machine using VFIO Aashima Arora
2014-12-05 18:08         ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-05 18:42           ` Neil Horman
2014-12-05 21:14       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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