14/07/2021 11:28, Tudor Cornea: > Some older kernels do not support the PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS socket > option. Such an example is the CentOS 7 kernel (3.10). > > If we only check for the definition of PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS, it might mean > that we will not be able to compile the PMD driver on a newer platform, > and run in on a machine with an older kernel. > > Setting the socket option only if it is specifically requested from > the EAL arguments, allows us to have a way to run the PMD compiled > against newer kernel headers, on platforms having older kernels. > > Signed-off-by: Tudor Cornea <tudor.cor...@keysight.com>
Applied, thanks.
