[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] xenvirt: Fix build break on cmdline_parse_etheraddr call

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Dec 18 17:17:12 CET 2014


On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:03:28 -0500
Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> Back in:
> 
> commit aaa662e75c23c61a1d79bd4d1f9f35b4967c39db
> Author: Alan Carew <alan.carew at intel.com>
> Date:   Fri Dec 5 15:19:07 2014 +0100
> 
>     cmdline: fix overflow on bsd
> 
> The author failed to fixup a call to cmdline_parse_etheraddr in xenvirt.  This
> patch makes the needed correction to avoid a build break
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> CC: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>

If we could fix the header incompatiablities then the driver could use
a standard library like ether_aton() instead of dragging in the unnecessary
cmdline library.



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