[dpdk-stable] Fwd: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix build with kernel 4.9

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Hi,
would you consider that as a stable patch as well?

It is not strictly a feature, but not strictly a fix either.
Never the less I would expect it to be worth to be included in the stable
release - so FYI to stable list.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:23 PM
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix build with kernel 4.9
To: dev at dpdk.org
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>


compile error:
  CC [M]  .../lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.o
.../lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.c:2317:21:
error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
        [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
  .ndo_set_vf_vlan = igb_ndo_set_vf_vlan,
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Linux kernel 4.9 updates API for ndo_set_vf_vlan:
Linux: 79aab093a0b5 ("net: Update API for VF vlan protocol 802.1ad support")

Use new API for Linux kernels >= 4.9

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
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