[ovs-dev] [PATCH 6/6] datapath: Add support for kernel 4.7

[pravin shelar]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
>> ---
>>  FAQ.md       | 2 +-
>>  NEWS         | 2 +-
>>  acinclude.m4 | 4 ++--
>>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Should we also add 4.7 to Travis?
>
> I noticed that there appear to be at least two commits that are in 4.7
> upstream OVS that are not currently backported here (there might be
> others as well):
> 3b78155b (“openvswitch: __nf_ct_l{3,4}proto_find() always return a
> valid pointer”)
This patch is already in master.

> d913d3a7 (“openvswitch: fix conntrack netlink event delivery”)
>
> And this one from Geneve:
> d5d5e8d5 (“geneve: fix max_mtu setting”)
>
I will send patches for these commits.

> One other thing that I noticed while looking at this is that the GRO
> registration for Geneve and VXLAN (for example, in
> geneve_notify_add_rx_port()) is an #else with the hardware receive
> registration. This doesn't seem right - they come and go in various
> kernel versions pretty much independently of each other. For example,
> upstream 4.6 has both.

ok, I will investigate it.