On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Joe Stringer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

ok, I fixed patch to update the documentation and travis configuration.
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