On 7 December 2016 at 16:31, Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]> wrote: > This patch allows openvswitch kernel module in the OVS tree to be > compiled against the current net-next Linux kernel. The changes are > due to these upstream commits: > > 56989f6d856 ("genetlink: mark families as __ro_after_init") > 489111e5c25 ("genetlink: statically initialize families") > a07ea4d9941 ("genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs") > > struct genl_family initialization is changed be completely static and > to include the new (in Linux 4.6) __ro_after_init attribute. Compat > code defines it as an empty macro if not defined already. > > GENL_ID_GENERATE is no longer defined, but since it was defined as 0, > it is safe to drop it from all initializers also on older Linux > versions. > > Tested with current Linux net-next (4.9) and 3.16. > > Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
Looks like others are happy with the change, I just had one question (I mentioned offline) about whether we are now synchronised between ovs tree datapath module and upstream v4.9 module code? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
