Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2020-01-27 Thread Gregory Rose
top posting for convenience sake... David and Ben, I've found a fix for this and am preparing a patch for the Linux kernel list.  We'll see what the Linux maintainers think, but it's pretty basic and I can't see why they would object.  But ya never know. Thanks, - Greg On 12/20/2019 1:13

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-20 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/20/2019 11:53 AM, David Ahern wrote: On 12/20/19 11:14 AM, Gregory Rose wrote: On 12/19/2019 7:20 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: Bisecting is hard when you're doing it across 10s of thousands of Linux revisions but after a few fitsand starts I think it's this patch: commit 9b9a3f20cbe0ba9269cd

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-20 Thread David Ahern
On 12/20/19 11:14 AM, Gregory Rose wrote: > > On 12/19/2019 7:20 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: >> >> Bisecting is hard when you're doing it across 10s of thousands of >> Linux revisions but after a few fitsand starts I think it's this >> patch: >> >> commit 9b9a3f20cbe0ba9269cde6fff9f9c69907e150cf >> Au

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-20 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/19/2019 7:20 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: Bisecting is hard when you're doing it across 10s of thousands of Linux revisions but after a few fitsand starts I think it's this patch: commit 9b9a3f20cbe0ba9269cde6fff9f9c69907e150cf Author: Masahiro Yamada Date:   Thu Aug 15 01:06:23 2019 +0900

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-19 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/11/2019 3:33 PM, David Ahern wrote: On 12/11/19 12:17 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: Hi David, I just want to update you on this work.  I've got everything fixed up and compiling on 5.4.2 but in the modpostsection there are a lot of bizarre errors. I'm not sure where this comes from so I'm track

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-11 Thread David Ahern
On 12/11/19 12:17 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: > > Hi David, > > I just want to update you on this work.  I've got everything fixed up > and compiling > on 5.4.2 but in the modpostsection there are a lot of bizarre errors.  > I'm not sure where > this comes from so I'm tracking that down.  Unfortunate

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-11 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/5/2019 8:11 PM, David Ahern wrote: On 12/5/19 5:29 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: On 12/5/2019 3:22 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: On 12/5/2019 2:15 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:14:54PM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote: We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against rece

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 04:29:12PM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote: > I tried building against the 5.4.2 kernel from kernel.org and found the inet > frags issue that David pointed out > To see if there were any other problems I then I ran 'make -i' but found > nothing else.  It should just be > a compat

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread David Ahern
On 12/5/19 5:29 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: > > On 12/5/2019 3:22 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: >> >> On 12/5/2019 2:15 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:14:54PM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote: We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against recent kernels and will eve

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/5/2019 3:22 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: On 12/5/2019 2:15 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:14:54PM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote: We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against recent kernels and will eventually add support for 5.4.  Right now our support is up t

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/5/2019 2:15 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:14:54PM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote: We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against recent kernels and will eventually add support for 5.4.  Right now our support is up to 5.0. My belief is that usually we're only

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:14:54PM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote: > We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against recent > kernels and will eventually add support for 5.4.  Right now our > support is up to 5.0.  My belief is that usually we're only 1-2 releases behind, 4 is more than

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/5/2019 1:19 PM, David Ahern wrote: On 12/5/19 2:14 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against recent kernels and will eventually add support for 5.4.  Right now our support is up to 5.0.  However, you can just build the user space code and not

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread David Ahern
On 12/5/19 2:14 PM, Gregory Rose wrote: > > We try to keep our out of tree kernel modules compiling against recent > kernels and > will eventually add support for 5.4.  Right now our support is up to > 5.0.  However, > you can just build the user space code and not bother with building the > out o

Re: [ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread Gregory Rose
On 12/5/2019 11:52 AM, David Ahern wrote: Hi: I am trying to compile ovs code from github for the 5.4 kernel and the module builds are failing (excerpt pasted below). Is anyone working on moving the out of tree modules forward to 5.4 now that it is released and targeted as an LTS? Thanks, David

[ovs-dev] compiling on v5.4 kernel

2019-12-05 Thread David Ahern
Hi: I am trying to compile ovs code from github for the 5.4 kernel and the module builds are failing (excerpt pasted below). Is anyone working on moving the out of tree modules forward to 5.4 now that it is released and targeted as an LTS? Thanks, David /home/dahern/oss/ovs.git/datapath/linux/c