Most of the time kernels older or newer than the ones we support simply fail to compile. However, sometimes they appear to succeed but then cause problems later on. This explicitly checks for supported versions at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> --- datapath/datapath.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/datapath/datapath.c b/datapath/datapath.c index e2846f2..534ab91 100644 --- a/datapath/datapath.c +++ b/datapath/datapath.c @@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ #include "vlan.h" #include "vport-internal_dev.h" +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,18) || \ + LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,39) +#error Kernels before 2.6.18 or after 2.6.39 are not supported by this version of Open vSwitch. +#endif + int (*dp_ioctl_hook)(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd); EXPORT_SYMBOL(dp_ioctl_hook); -- 1.7.4.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
