Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix compilation for rdma-core v19

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 04:53 +0000, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Monday, July 23, 2018 8:10 PM, Luca Boccassi:
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix compilation for
> > rdma-core
> > v19
> > 
> > On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 10:30 +0300, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > > [ backported from upstream commit
> > > 06b1fe3f6d2121009b3b879e92b8cca25d4c0c42 ]
> > > 
> > > The flow counter support introduced by commit 9a761de8ea14
> > > ("net/mlx5:
> > > flow counter support") was intend to work only with MLNX_OFED_4.2
> > > as
> > > the upstream rdma-core libraries were lack such support.
> > > 
> > > On rdma-core v19 the support for the flow counters was added but
> > > with
> > > different user APIs, hence causing compilation issues on the PMD.
> > > 
> > > This patch fix the compilation errors by forcing the flow
> > > counters to
> > > be enabled only with MLNX_OFED APIs.
> > > Once MLNX_OFED and rdma-core APIs will be aligned, a proper patch
> > > to
> > > support the new API will be submitted.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 9a761de8ea14 ("net/mlx5: flow counter support")
> > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: orika@mellanox.com
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > > Reported-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/mlx5/Makefile    |  2 +-
> > >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c | 13 +++++++------
> > >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Hi Shahaf,
> > 
> > For which stable release branch is this patch intended?
> 
> This one for 18.05.1, I will have to make another one for 17.11.4 

Ok, thank you.

In the future, when sending patches to stable@dpdk.org only, please use
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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi