[dpdk-dev] KNI is broken with Linux 4.0

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Apr 28 18:48:35 CEST 2015


KNI won't build anymore. Since I don't use it not my problem.


CC [M]  /var/src/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.o
/var/src/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.c:2321:2: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror]
  .ndo_bridge_setlink = igb_ndo_bridge_setlink,
  ^
/var/src/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.c:2321:2: error: (near initialization for ‘igb_netdev_ops.ndo_bridge_setlink’) [-Werror]
/var/src/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.c: In function ‘igb_xmit_frame_ring’:
/var/src/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.c:5482:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vlan_tx_tag_present’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  if (vlan_tx_tag_present(skb)) {
  ^
/var/src/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_main.c:5484:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vlan_tx_tag_get’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   tx_flags |= (vlan_tx_tag_get(skb) << IGB_TX_FLAGS_VLAN_SHIFT);
   ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors


Ps: this and all the other kernel drivers really need to be upstream
to avoid these kind of issues in the future.


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