Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK drivers should not use kernel version

2017-06-24 Thread Shahaf Shuler
Friday, June 23, 2017 10:34 AM, Hemant Agrawal: > On 6/21/2017 9:58 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Looking at some other issues, I noticed that both the TAP and MLX5 > > device drivers are looking at kernel version through uname. Although > > this may seem like a good way to deal with kernel API

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK drivers should not use kernel version

2017-06-23 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:03:55 +0530 Hemant Agrawal wrote: > On 6/21/2017 9:58 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Looking at some other issues, I noticed that both the TAP and MLX5 device > > drivers are looking at kernel version through uname. Although this may > > seem like a good way to deal with

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK drivers should not use kernel version

2017-06-23 Thread Hemant Agrawal
On 6/21/2017 9:58 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Looking at some other issues, I noticed that both the TAP and MLX5 device drivers are looking at kernel version through uname. Although this may seem like a good way to deal with kernel API changes, it is not reliable. Enterprise kernel distro vend

[dpdk-dev] DPDK drivers should not use kernel version

2017-06-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Looking at some other issues, I noticed that both the TAP and MLX5 device drivers are looking at kernel version through uname. Although this may seem like a good way to deal with kernel API changes, it is not reliable. Enterprise kernel distro vendors never change kernel version but do backport f