[ovs-dev] [PATCH] compat: Fix upstream 4.4.119 kernel

Pravin Shelar pshelar at ovn.org
Wed May 9 02:44:32 UTC 2018


On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Linux 4.4.119 kernel (and perhaps others) from kernel.org
> backports some dst_cache code that breaks the openvswitch kernel
> due to a duplicated name "dst_cache_destroy".  For most cases the
> "USE_UPSTREAM_TUNNEL" covers this but in this case the dst_cache
> feature needs to be separated out.
>
> Add the necessary compatibility detection layer in acinclude.m4 and
> then fixup the source files so that if the built-in kernel includes
> dst_cache support then exclude our own compatibility code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>

I pushed it to master and upto branch 2.6.

Thanks.


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