[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] enicpmd: compilation error during inclusion of vfio.h

[Qiu, Michael]

On 11/28/2014 10:22 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2014-11-28 02:09, Qiu, Michael:
>> I have no comments on this issue, but I indeed see many places do have
>> this kernel issue(before/now/future), so can solve this issue globally?
>>
>> Thus, we do not need to fix this case by case.
>>
>> One solution(not sure if it works or not):
>>
>> 1. features and kernel version required list.
>> 2. When config DPDK before build, automatically check this list and if
>> not mach, just disable this feature in config file even though user set
>> it manually.
>>
>> Thus main code may not need to change.
>>
>> Does this works?
> If configuration system was different, we could have a list of constraint
> to satisfy before enabling a feature.

Yes,  I thinks so.

BTW, Is this valuable to spend time on, or can become one feature?

If so, I would like to have some time to do some research on it.

Thanks,
Michael
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