Re: [PATCH v2] kni: fix build on SLE12 SP3

On 8/29/2017 4:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:06:13 +0200
Nirmoy Das [off-list ref] wrote:

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compilation error:
build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_net.c:215:5: error:
‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘trans_start’
  dev->trans_start = jiffies;

Signed-off-by: Nirmoy Das <redacted>

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Sigh. KNI needs to get upstream, or we need to leave RHEL and SLES
version magic to the distros to manage as their own patches.

This kind of spaghetti of ifdef's is unmanageable, untestable, and 
just plain ugly.

I agree with above comment, meanwhile I believe we need to support this
as long as maintained in DPDK.