Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: kernel version check for using kstrtoul or strict_strtoul

["Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>]

Hi Jincheng

I have seen your v3 patch, and ack-ed it. I just dropped my patch for the same issue. Thank you so much!

Regards,
Helin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jincheng Miao [mailto:jmiao@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:55 AM
> To: Zhang, Helin; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: kernel version check for using kstrtoul
> or strict_strtoul
> 
> Here is my patch for it, and it also resolves issue of pci_num_vf() definition.
> 
> And I will send V3 for a while.
> 
> 
> On 12/10/2014 10:38 AM, Helin Zhang wrote:
> > strict_strtoul() was just a redefinition of kstrtoul() for a long
> > time. From kernel version of 3.18, strict_strtoul() will not be
> > defined at all. A compile time kernel version check is needed to
> > decide which function or macro can be used for a specific version of
> > kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
> > ---
> >   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c | 4 ++++
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> > b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> > index d1ca26e..2fcc5f4 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> > @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ store_max_vfs(struct device *dev, struct
> device_attribute *attr,
> >   	unsigned long max_vfs;
> >   	struct pci_dev *pdev = container_of(dev, struct pci_dev, dev);
> >
> > +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 2, 0)
> >   	if (0 != strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &max_vfs))
> > +#else
> > +	if (0 != kstrtoul(buf, 0, &max_vfs)) #endif
> >   		return -EINVAL;
> >
> >   	if (0 == max_vfs)