[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/3] datapath: compat: Fix build on RHEL 7.3

[Joe Stringer]

On 13 January 2017 at 19:14, Han Zhou <zhouhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should this one be applied to stable branches such as ovs2.6?
>
> Now I got the compile error while compiling ovs2.6 with kernel version
> 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 (CentOS 7.3):
>
> ovs/datapath/linux/compat/include/linux/netdevice.h:125:34: error:
> conflicting types for 'netdev_notifier_info_to_dev'
>  static inline struct net_device *netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(void *info)

This is effectively a new feature (support for a new kernel), we
typically do not backport new features or new kernel support back to
older branches. Users who wish to use OVS on newer CentOS kernels may
use the upstream module provided by CentOS, or use a newer release
(master for now, or v2.7 when it comes out ETA next month).