[dpdk-dev] Newbie question: compiling virtio-net-pmd v1.2 fails with dpdk 1.7 on a VM

[Tapio Tallgren]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
wrote:

> 2014-11-20 06:17, Neil Horman:
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 09:14:35AM +0200, Tapio Tallgren wrote:
> > > Looks like a version conflict? Dpdk 1.7 should support virtio-pmd so
> what
> > > am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Nothing, its a bug.  DPDK changed the API here with commit
> > 9aaccf1abdb2894ec23870e1d2199a657f85850e but it never got changed in the
> > virtio_user pmd.  You need to modify the pmd like the other call sites
> have been
> > in the above commit.
> >
> > This is why those external pmds need to be merged into the dpdk tree.
>
> Yes, exactly.
> We'll see during 2.0 cycle how to merge them. The ideal plan is to keep
> only
> 1 implementation.
>
> In the meantime, patches are welcome.
>
> --
> Thomas
>

This looks like a purely cosmetic change? So, if the code compiles, then it
will also run correctly?


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-Tapio