[ovs-discuss] not support ubuntu kernel 5.3.18

Gregory Rose gvrose8192 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 19:04:07 UTC 2020


On 3/5/2020 9:37 AM, Jiping Lu wrote:
>
> Hello Mr/Ms.,
>
>
> When I configure OVS on ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS, after I run the 
> following command,
>
>
> $ ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
>
>
> It shows the following error:
>
>
> checking for kernel version... 5.3.18
>
> configure: error: Linux kernel in /lib/modules/5.3.0-40-generic/build 
> is version 5.3.18, but version newer than 5.0.x is not supported 
> (please refer to the FAQ for advice)
>
>
> What should I do?
>

There is a patch series under review that will allow building on kernels
up to 5.5.  You can wait for that or you can downgrade your kernel to
5.0 or less.

Thanks

- Greg

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