[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] acinclude: Fix build with kernels with prandom* moved to prandom.h.

Ilya Maximets i.maximets at ovn.org
Wed Aug 12 17:17:36 UTC 2020


On 8/12/20 6:23 PM, Gregory Rose wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/12/2020 8:51 AM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> Recent commit c0842fbc1b18 ("random32: move the pseudo-random 32-bit
>> definitions to prandom.h") in upstream kernel moved the definition
>> of prandom_* functions from random.h to prandom.h.  This change was
>> also backported to stable kernels.
>>
>> Fixing our configure script to look for these functions in a new
>> location and avoid build failures:
>>
>>    datapath/linux/compat/include/linux/random.h:11:19:
>>      error: redefinition of 'prandom_u32_max'
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org>
>> ---
>>
>> Version 2:
>>    - Just checking in both files without caring if the first check
>>      failed or not.
>>
>>   acinclude.m4 | 4 ++++
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
>> index 4bac9dbdd..84f344da0 100644
>> --- a/acinclude.m4
>> +++ b/acinclude.m4
>> @@ -817,6 +817,10 @@ AC_DEFUN([OVS_CHECK_LINUX_COMPAT], [
>>                     [prandom_u32[[\(]]],
>>                     [OVS_DEFINE([HAVE_PRANDOM_U32])])
>>     OVS_GREP_IFELSE([$KSRC/include/linux/random.h], [prandom_u32_max])
>> +  OVS_GREP_IFELSE([$KSRC/include/linux/prandom.h],
>> +                  [prandom_u32[[\(]]],
>> +                  [OVS_DEFINE([HAVE_PRANDOM_U32])])
>> +  OVS_GREP_IFELSE([$KSRC/include/linux/prandom.h], [prandom_u32_max])
>>       OVS_GREP_IFELSE([$KSRC/include/net/rtnetlink.h], [get_link_net])
>>     OVS_GREP_IFELSE([$KSRC/include/net/rtnetlink.h], [name_assign_type])
>>
> 
> LGTM
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>

Thanks!
Applied and backported down to 2.10.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.


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