[PATCH 25.11 0/3] remove fallbacks for old Linux versions

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:29:01 +0000
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> We no longer support versions of linux before 4.19[1], therefore
> all supported linux versions support F_ADD_SEALS (Linux 3.17+) and
> MFD_HUGETLB (Linux 4.14+), so no need to have #ifdefs and fallbacks to
> support systems which do not support those features.
> 
> [1] https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html#system-software
> 
> Bruce Richardson (3):
>   eal/linux: remove fallbacks for old Linux versions
>   vhost: : remove fallbacks for old Linux versions
>   memif: : remove fallbacks for old Linux versions
> 
>  drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.h |  41 -------
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c      | 174 +++++-------------------------
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c        |   7 --
>  lib/vhost/vhost_user.c            |   7 --
>  4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 205 deletions(-)
> 

Series-Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>