[ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

David Ahern dsahern at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 04:11:04 UTC 2019


On 12/5/19 5:29 PM, Gregory Rose wrote:
> 
> On 12/5/2019 3:22 PM, Gregory Rose wrote:
>>
>> On 12/5/2019 2:15 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:14:54PM -0800, 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.
>>> My belief is that usually we're only 1-2 releases behind, 4 is more than
>>> I usually expect.  Have we been particularly pressed with other issues
>>> recently?
>>
>> No more than usual I guess.  I know my attention has definitely been
>> elsewhere lately.
>>
>> Let me look into it and scope the effort to pull us up to 5.4. The 5.0
>> kernel isn't even
>> listed at kernel.org with 4.19 being the latest LTS that we support. 
>> If 5.4 is going to be
>> LTS as well then it makes sense to support it.
> 
> I tried building against the 5.4.2 kernel from kernel.org and found the
> inet frags issue that David pointed out
> To see if there were any other problems I then I ran 'make -i' but found
> nothing else.  It should just be
> a compat layer fixup for the inet frags issue.
> 
> Maybe I can get a patch out for 5.4 support next week if no unforeseen
> complications
> arise.  Hopefully that can help David out in a timely manner as well.
> 

That would be a huge help. Thanks, Greg.


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