On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org> 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 <ja...@ovn.org>
>
Tested building linux 4.0-4.9.
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <az...@ovn.org>
When compiling with 4.0, I got the following warnning. It does not seem to
be related to this patch.
/home/azhou/projs/ovs/datapath/linux/datapath.c: In function
‘ovs_flow_cmd_set’:
/home/azhou/projs/ovs/datapath/linux/datapath.c:1232:1: warning: the frame
size of 1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
}
^
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