[ovs-dev] [PATCH V4 2/2] acinclude: Warn when --with-linux parameter is supplied

[Flavio Leitner]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:26:50PM -0800, Greg Rose wrote:
> The Linux Out of Tree kernel driver is deprecated.  Emit a warning
> when the '--with-linux' configure parameter is supplied to remind
> the user.

Same here, I suggest to rephrase the out of tree above as well.

fbl

> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  acinclude.m4 | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
> index 60871f67a..3432e1f9b 100644
> --- a/acinclude.m4
> +++ b/acinclude.m4
> @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([OVS_CHECK_LINUX], [
>  
>    if test X"$with_linux" != X; then
>      KBUILD=$with_linux
> +    AC_MSG_WARN([--with-linux is deprecated and kernel support is limited to 5.8 and below])
>    elif test X"$with_l26" != X; then
>      KBUILD=$with_l26
>      AC_MSG_WARN([--with-l26 is deprecated, please use --with-linux instead])
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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fbl