[ovs-discuss] dpdk installation failed with OVS

[Ian Stokes]

On 7/12/2018 5:54 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:26:53AM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 09:41:24AM -0400, Sandeep Adapala wrote:
>>> Hello Ian,
>>>
>>> Currently I am using Ubuntu 16.04 OS
>>> OVS version is v2.6.1 and DPDK is v16.11.1
>>
>>
>> You need to follow the instructions of the version you're using.
>> The doc url below refers to the latest OVS which is different than
>> the 2.6.1 you're using.
> 
> I wonder whether we should add a note to the DPDK installation
> instructions that says that they vary between versions and that if
> you're reading them outside the OVS build tree then you should check
> that you're looking at the right version.

Good point, this issue has appears quite a bit. I'll submit a patch to 
do this.

Ian