Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix build on RHEL 7.6-ALT on IBM POWER9

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 12/21/2018 6:03 AM, David Zeng wrote:
> Signed-off-by: David Zeng <zengxhsh@cn.ibm.com>
> ---
>  kernel/linux/kni/compat.h | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/linux/kni/compat.h b/kernel/linux/kni/compat.h
> index 5aadebb..1afa3b8 100644
> --- a/kernel/linux/kni/compat.h
> +++ b/kernel/linux/kni/compat.h
> @@ -102,8 +102,14 @@
>  #undef NET_NAME_UNKNOWN
>  #endif
>  
> +/*
> + * RHEL has two different version with different kernel version: 
> + * 3.10 is for AMD, Intel, IBM POWER7 and POWER8;
> + * 4.14 is for ARM and IBM POWER9
> + */
>  #if (defined(RHEL_RELEASE_CODE) && \
> -	(RHEL_RELEASE_CODE >= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(7, 5)))
> +	(RHEL_RELEASE_CODE >= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(7, 5)) && \
> +	(LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 14, 0)))
>  #define ndo_change_mtu ndo_change_mtu_rh74
>  #endif

Do you need to update 'kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/kcompat.h' for same check?

Also there is another update on same line for RHEL8 fix [1], if you can rebase
on top of it makes maintainers life easier.

[1] https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/49104/

Thanks,
ferruh