[ovs-dev] datapath/linux/compat question

[Zoltan Kiss]

Hi,

I have a recent patch on net-next which affects OVS as well:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c

I guess the changes for datapatch.c will turn up automagically sometime 
during a merge, is that correct?
But there is a change in the core skbuff API which need to be included 
in datapath/linux/compat/skbuff-openvswitch.c, otherwise upstream OVS 
won't build on older kernels. How does this process works? Is there any 
guarantee that even if it's forgotten during the merge, a build system 
somewhere will try to compile upstream OVS with older kernel, and sends 
a message when it fails?

Regards,

Zoli