[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Change acinclude to support 4.6 kernels

[Ryan Moats]

Jesse Gross <jesse at kernel.org> wrote on 06/09/2016 02:49:38 PM:

> From: Jesse Gross <jesse at kernel.org>
> To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc: ovs dev <dev at openvswitch.org>
> Date: 06/09/2016 02:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Change acinclude to support 4.6 kernels
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > From: RYAN D. MOATS <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
> >
> > We've been compiling and testing against the 4.6.0 kernel
> > tree and 2.5.90 looks pretty good.  So, let's start the
> > update pieces.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: RYAN D. MOATS <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
>
> There are a bunch of patches from 4.4-4.6 that aren't yet in the
> backport version of the OVS kernel datapath. I'd like to consistently
> take in all of these so that we don't miss anything rather than just
> doing it piecemeal. Pravin previously sent out a patchset to do this
> but it needs some revision.

That's a fair comment - I'll throw the patch in the deferred
category for now.

Pravin - how goes revising the patchset that Jesse refers to above?
I'm willing to provide an extra set of hands if need be...

Ryan