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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:25:51 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix build with Linux kernel 4.1 or later
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:53:51 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:

> 2015-07-09 10:43, Stephen Hemminger:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
> > 
> > The internal API for some functions used by KNI changes in current
> > kernel. KNI really needs to be submitted upstream (by Intel)
> > to keep it maintainable.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> 
> There was already a similar patchset from Miguel Bernal Marin waiting for review:
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/5862
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/5863
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/5864

Sure Intel patch is cleaner.
But KNI, is heading down an #ifdef rathole.