On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:33:06 +0000 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:18:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > While reworking tap device, one issue is how to keep (or drop) the support > > of older Enterprise releases. The tap flow support is doing some workarounds > > to include missing support, but these are not the right way to do it. > > > > The question is: is this even worth keeping? > > CentOS 7 reaches end of life in June 2024. > > CentOS 7 is using a kernel which is no longer supported. > > > > If we drop CentOS 7, that means dropping RHEL7 and would need to be > > hightlighted > > in the docs. > > I thought we had already dropped it. Centos 7 doesn't come by default with > a C11-supporting compiler. > > /Bruce Well my recent patches were getting hit in CI by: Meson Build Summary: 24 Builds Done, 23 Successful, 1 Failures, 0 Blocked +-------------------+------------+--------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+ | os | gcc-static | clang-static | icc-static | gcc-shared | gcc-debug | document | gcc-16byte | +-------------------+------------+--------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+ | OpenAnolis8.8-64 | pass | | | | | | | | FreeBSD13-64 | pass | pass | | pass | pass | | | | RHEL92-64 | pass | pass | | pass | pass | | | | SUSE15-64 | pass | pass | | | | | | | CBL-Mariner2.0-64 | pass | | | | | | | | UB2204-32 | pass | | | | | | | | RHEL89-64 | pass | | | | | | | | UB2204-64 | pass | pass | | | | pass | pass | | CentOS79-64 | fail | | | | | | | <<<<<<< This needs to go | RHEL92-64Rt | pass | | | | | | | | UB2310-64 | pass | | | | | | | | FC39-64 | pass | pass | | | | | | | UB2204-64Rt | pass | | | | | | | +-------------------+------------+--------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+