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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: david.marchand@redhat.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com,
	stable@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] doc: remove Linux headers from requirements
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:08:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201126160837.1385842-1-thomas@monjalon.net> (raw)

The compilation of the kernel module KNI is optional.
The kernel headers should be required for DPDK compilation.

Fixes: 91a861e54164 ("config: disable Linux kernel modules by default")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index ab38284950..87f7c9aa8c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
 
     * ``libnuma-dev`` in Debian/Ubuntu;
 
-*   Linux kernel headers or sources required to build kernel modules.
-
 .. note::
 
    Please ensure that the latest patches are applied to third party libraries
-- 
2.28.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-26 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-26 16:08 Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-11-26 16:21 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-27  0:56   ` Thomas Monjalon

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