[ovs-discuss] build for linux kernel 3.9

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Athanasios Douitsis <aduitsis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My apologies if this mailing list is inappropriate for this question.
>
> I am pulling from master and trying to compile ovs on a machine with 3.9
> kernel, so far unsuccessfully. I also noticed on the dev list that a patch
> titled "datapath: Add support for linux kernel 3.9" has been submitted by
> pshelar @ nicira on the 13th instant.
> (http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2013-May/027433.html).
>
> I am hitherto getting the error "Kernels before 2.6.18 or after 3.8 are not
> supported by this version of Open vSwitch" shortly after issuing make. Does
> anyone have any idea when this patch will be applied? Perhaps I should
> switch to another branch?

As the message indicates, 3.9 is not currently supported by OVS. There
were some review comments on that patch so it has not been applied
yet.