On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Michael Przybylski <[email protected]> wrote: > This patch refers to commit > a83d19d7581c083b84a611a1bf4286989656f52c > "Set dates for 1.9.0 release." > > Building brcompat.ko for Debian Wheezy fails with error "openvswitch/datapath/ > linux/compat/include/linux/etherdevice.h:13:20: error: > redefinition of ‘eth_hw_addr_random’" because it is already defined in > /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-common/include/linux/etherdevice.h > > The following patch moves the kernel threshold for defining > dev_hw_addr_random down from < 3.4.0 to < 3.2.0 > > openvswitch-1.9.0 with this patch was successfully built for Debian Wheezy > with dpkg-buildpackage, the resulting .debs were successfully installed, > and openvswitch.ko and brcompat.ko were successfully built, and inserted > into the running kernel. > > Further testing to consider: > * Test against linux kernel versions between 3.2.1 and 3.4.0. > * Test in other distributions that use kernels between 3.2.0 and 3.4.0 > > Signed-off-by: Michael Przybylski <[email protected]>
Looking at the mainline kernel, it looks like it was indeed introduced in 3.4. That could mean that it was backported on Debian, although that would be somewhat unusual. Can you look into this a little further to understand if that happened? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
