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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix file locking in EAL memory
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:05:10 +0200
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24/04/2018 19:25, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 24-Apr-18 5:32 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:54:21 +0100
> > Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> One of the ways to work around this was using OFD locks,
> >> but they are only supported on kernels 3.15+,
> > 
> > Maybe time to move to next LTS kernel (3.16)?
> > 
> 
> I'm all for it, but it's not my call to make :(

I am in favor of upgrading kernel requirements.
The discussion already started few months ago:
	https://dpdk.org/patch/34778

We just need to consider how to support the latest versions
of distributions Debian, Ubuntu, SLES and RHEL.