Re: Legacy Linux kernel support

[David Laight <David.Laight () ACULAB COM>]

From: Mario Rugiero
> Sent: 07 October 2019 19:07
...
> > If we were to drop TPACKET_V1 and TPACKET_V2 support, that'd mean we'd be dropping 2.x kernels and older 3.x 
> > kernels as
> > targets, and would require that the headers with which libpcap is being built be new enough to support TPACKET_V3.
> Yes. That's what I'm proposing.

I don't think it makes sense to drop support for kernels which distributions still have under LTS.
I think that means 2.6.32 still needs to be supported.

        David

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