On 23 February 2016 at 17:06, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Currently OVS out of tree datapath supports a large number of kernel
>> versions. From 2.6.32 to 4.3 and various distribution-specific
>> kernels. But at this point major features are only available on more
>> recent kernels.  For example, stateful services are only available
>> starting in kernel 3.10 and STT is available on starting with 3.5.
>>
>> Since these features are becoming essential to many OVS deployments,
>> and the effort of maintaining the backports is high. We have decided
>> to drop support for older kernel. Following patch drops supports
>> for kernel older than 3.10.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>
>
> I haven't reviewed the whole patch but I think we should add this to
> the FAQ entry about kernel versions and NEWS.

.travis.yml can be updated to drop the earlier builds, too.
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