26/09/2017 09:17, Stephen Hemminger: > The DPDK needs to stay up to date with current LTS Linux kernel support. > If the kernel is older than LTS it is likely to be insecure and buggy. > Therefore only require DPDK to work on oldest LTS kernel. > > If distribution vendors want to support DPDK on older kernels, that is > their choice. But the upstream source does not need to be cluttered > with support for this. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > --- > doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 4 +++- [...] > **Required:** > > -* Kernel version >= 2.6.34 > +* Kernel version >= 3.2.93
I think we should not specify any minor number. 3.2 is enough. It would make more sense to change this constraint at the beginning of a release cycle.
