[ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch version and Linux kernel version

[Jesse Gross]

I would certainly be happy to accept a patch that does that.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Dongsheng Song
<dongsheng.song at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recommend add kernel version checks in configure.
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Dongsheng Song
>> <dongsheng.song at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When I compile Open vSwitch 1.7 with Linux 3.4.15, I got the following error:
>>>
>>>   CC [M]  /srv/git/openvswitch/datapath/linux/datapath.o
>>> /srv/git/openvswitch/datapath/linux/datapath.c:42:24: fatal error:
>>> asm/system.h: No such file or directory
>>> compilation terminated.
>>>
>>> Then I have a question: What's the Linux version ranges each Open
>>> vSwitch version supported ?
>>
>> 1.7 supports up through 3.3.  It should display an error if the
>> version is out of range but sometimes it doesn't get far enough if
>> there are early failures like this.
>>
>> You can use the master branch in git for 3.4 if you need it.