On 11/11/2017 8:30 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 26/09/2017 09:17, Stephen Hemminger: >> The DPDK needs to stay up to date with current LTS Linux kernel support. >> If the kernel is older than LTS it is likely to be insecure and buggy. >> Therefore only require DPDK to work on oldest LTS kernel. >> >> If distribution vendors want to support DPDK on older kernels, that is >> their choice. But the upstream source does not need to be cluttered >> with support for this. >> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> >> --- >> doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 4 +++- > [...] >> **Required:** >> >> -* Kernel version >= 2.6.34 >> +* Kernel version >= 3.2.93 > > I think we should not specify any minor number. 3.2 is enough. > > It would make more sense to change this constraint at the beginning > of a release cycle.
If agreed on this, I can send a few cleanup patches for kni and igb_uio after this patch applied. >