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

Dongsheng Song dongsheng.song at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 00:07:29 UTC 2012


If I know what's the Linux version ranges each Open vSwitch version supported,
I can do it. But the reality is I do not know

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> 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.



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