Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net: add mmsghdr struct check for L2TPV3

[Anton Ivanov (antivano)]

On 01/07/14 16:14, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 1 July 2014 16:06, Anton Ivanov (antivano) <address@hidden> wrote:
>> As far as general purpose linuxes, the relevant libc headers are present
>> in Ubuntul LTS 12.x and onwards, Debian 7.x, Fedora, and all other major
>> distros. I do not have a RHEL handy to check, but looking at release
>> notes that the kernel supporting recmmsg is in 6.0 in the first place
>> and so are the headers for glibc from certain point onwards.
> RHEL5 is still only 2.6.18 though (says wikipedia), so regardless of
> details of exactly which version this struct appeared in we still want
> to support compiling on a system which doesn't have it.
>
> (I'm planning to apply this patch to master for rc0; I'll fix up the
> commit message to quote a better version number.)

If we will support that far back, we need an emulation via recvmsg. I
will provide an incremental which does that.

I am not familiar with the way qemu ./configure tests are structured so
if you can tell me which DEFINE I should use for the choice I will
gladly supply the patch.

A.

>
> thanks
> -- PMM