[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 00/16] port Jiri Benc's L3 patchset to ovs
Joe Stringer
joe at ovn.org
Thu Feb 9 01:43:35 UTC 2017
On 7 February 2017 at 21:15, Yang, Yi Y <yi.y.yang at intel.com> wrote:
> Joe, I investigated all the patches which changed include/linux/if_vlan.h for 802.1ad in net-next again, I found ovs compat mode doesn't need most of them at all, datapath/linux/compat/include/linux/ only includes part of changes which aren't in local $KSRC/include/linux/ but required in datapath/linux/compat/*.c
^ required in datapath/linux/compat/*.c, or datapath/*.c. If a
function doesn't exist in an older kernel, a backport is needed -
whether in the headers or datapath/linux/compat/*.c. Also, if the
behaviour of one of those functions changes on a newer kernel which
requires changes to the users (such as datapath/*.c), then they may
also need updating.
> , so my conclusion is we needn't them at all, https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-February/328492.html is enough for 802.1ad backport for ovs.
At a glance I think you're right.
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