[ovs-dev] branch-1.7 and kernel 3.4

[Tomasz Paszkowski]

I found commit on head for 3.4:

http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=commitdiff;h=8b9a3d50b433c7fbed7b31b3d6f2bda966440b41

for 3.7

http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=commitdiff;h=df2652105fd562ebd66590276cc939c67d37b3e5


and for 3.8

http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=commitdiff;h=465b6c7e352ff4950fb627d383467260b16d3d7f


As i understand i can backport them easy to 1.7 ?


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Tomasz Paszkowski <ss7pro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have plans to support branch-1.7 on kernels 3.4 ? Patch below
> allows to compile datapath module. After loading module gre tunnels
> and pure l2 switching is working. I'am just wondering how you decide
> which kernel version is supported ?
>
>
> --- openvswitch-1.7.3-dist/datapath/datapath.c 2013-01-23
> 03:38:24.000000000 +0100
> +++ openvswitch-1.7.3/datapath/datapath.c 2013-02-26 15:40:40.741981848 +0100
> @@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
>  #include <linux/version.h>
>  #include <linux/ethtool.h>
>  #include <linux/wait.h>
> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,4,0)
>  #include <asm/system.h>
> +#endif
>  #include <asm/div64.h>
>  #include <linux/highmem.h>
>  #include <linux/netfilter_bridge.h>
> @@ -62,8 +64,8 @@
>  #include "vport-internal_dev.h"
>
>  #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,18) || \
> -    LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,4,0)
> -#error Kernels before 2.6.18 or after 3.3 are not supported by this
> version of Open vSwitch.
> +    LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,5,0)
> +#error Kernels before 2.6.18 or after 3.4 are not supported by this
> version of Open vSwitch.
>  #endif
>
>  #define REHASH_FLOW_INTERVAL (10 * 60 * HZ)
>
>
> --
> Tomasz Paszkowski
> SS7, Asterisk, SAN, Datacenter, Cloud Computing
> +48500166299



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Tomasz Paszkowski
SS7, Asterisk, SAN, Datacenter, Cloud Computing
+48500166299