[ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

David Ahern dsahern at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 21:19:12 UTC 2019


On 12/5/19 2:14 PM, Gregory Rose wrote:
> 
> We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against recent
> kernels and
> will eventually add support for 5.4.  Right now our support is up to
> 5.0.  However,
> you can just build the user space code and not bother with building the
> out of
> tree kernel modules and then just use the built-in openvswitch kernel
> module for 5.4.
> 
> Is there some specific need for the out of tree kernel modules to
> compile on 5.4
> right now?
> 

sadly, it is for an out of tree module. STT. I guess I could try
bringing just that one into the kernel and try a build.


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