[ovs-dev] [PATCH 6/6] datapath: Add support for 4.1 kernel.

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Joe Stringer <joestringer at nicira.com> wrote:
> On 30 July 2015 at 12:24, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Joe Stringer <joestringer at nicira.com> wrote:
>>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>>> index 70cc14b..f3236db 100644
>>> --- a/.travis.yml
>>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ env:
>>>    - TESTSUITE=1 KERNEL=3.18.1
>>>    - TESTSUITE=1 OPTS="--enable-shared"
>>>    - BUILD_ENV="-m32" OPTS="--disable-ssl"
>>> +  - KERNEL=4.1.3
>>>    - KERNEL=4.0.2
>>
>> I wonder if we should just replace 4.0.2? I don't know if we need to
>> check every kernel version and it will increase build times.
>
> Sure, this was on my mind too. Do we have some heuristic to figure out
> which kernels to test?
>
> The ones that make the most sense to me would be LTS or those included
> in major releases of popular distros. Perhaps the existing selection
> of versions is more intentional than I can see, but it looks like a
> random scattering to me.

I don't think there is much in the way of a pattern at this point. I
agree with your logic - earliest and latest kernels that we support,
common distribution kernels or LTS releases, anywhere where we know
there was a major change, etc.