From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_packet: add PMD for AF_PACKET-based virtual devices
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:46:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140714134616.GC27848@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9007827.iVFoEikAOq@xps13>
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:34:46AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2014-07-11 13:40, John W. Linville:
> > Is there an example of code in DPDK that requires specific kernel
> > versions? What is the preferred method for coding such dependencies?
>
> No there is no userspace code checking kernel version in DPDK.
> Feel free to use what you think the best method.
> Please keep in mind that checking version number is a maintenance nightmare
> because of backports (like RedHat do ;).
I suppose that it could be a configuration option?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-14 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-10 20:32 John W. Linville
2014-07-11 13:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-11 14:49 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 15:06 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 15:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-11 16:07 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 15:29 ` Venkatesan, Venky
2014-07-11 15:33 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 16:29 ` Venkatesan, Venky
2014-07-11 13:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 14:51 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 15:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 15:30 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 16:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 17:38 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 17:41 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-12 11:48 ` Neil Horman
[not found] ` <D0158A423229094DA7ABF71CF2FA0DA3117D3A23@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2014-07-11 17:20 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 17:40 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 18:01 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 18:46 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-12 0:42 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-14 13:45 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 19:04 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 19:31 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 20:27 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 20:31 ` Shaw, Jeffrey B
2014-07-11 20:35 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 20:40 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 22:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-14 13:46 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2014-07-15 21:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 12:35 ` Neil Horman
2014-07-16 13:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 14:07 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-16 14:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 15:59 ` Shaw, Jeffrey B
2014-07-11 22:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-14 17:53 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 22:51 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-07-14 13:48 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-14 17:35 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-14 18:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
2014-07-15 0:15 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 12:17 ` Neil Horman
2014-07-15 14:01 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 15:40 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 19:08 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 20:31 ` Neil Horman
2014-07-15 20:41 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 15:34 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-12 18:05 ` John W. Linville
2014-09-12 18:31 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-12 18:54 ` John W. Linville
2014-09-12 20:35 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-15 15:09 ` Neil Horman
2014-09-15 15:15 ` John W. Linville
2014-09-15 15:43 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-15 16:22 ` Neil Horman
2014-09-15 17:48 ` John W. Linville
2014-09-15 19:11 ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-16 20:16 ` Neil Horman
2014-09-26 9:28 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-09-26 14:08 ` Neil Horman
2014-09-29 10:05 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-08 15:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-08 19:14 ` Neil Horman
2014-11-13 10:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-13 11:14 ` Neil Horman
2014-11-13 11:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-14 0:42 ` Neil Horman
2014-11-14 14:45 ` John W. Linville
2014-11-17 15:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] librte_pmd_af_packet: " John W. Linville
2014-11-24 16:16 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-17 11:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] librte_pmd_packet: " Neil Horman
2014-11-17 11:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
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