On 30/10/2020 18:32, Gregory Rose wrote: > > The question is whether there is any interest in continuing to support > the OVS out-of-tree (OOT) kernel driver or should we deprecate it? The > latest kernel support for the OOT driver is up to 5.8.x There seems to > be little interest that I can tell in using the OOT driver. The main > distros all include the kernel built-in OVS driver and those drivers > generally seem to support all the primary features required by user space. > > Most of the energy on this list seems to be directed toward DPDK and OVN > and it doesn't seem to me that either of those require the OOT driver. > If there's no one actually using the OOT driver I suggest we deprecate > it and save time and energy on keeping it up to date. > > Opinions, thoughts, comments? >
I think it is good to raise this question. Thanks. It would certainly simplify development of kernel features and avoid the type of issue that I had recently with a patch in the OOT tree but not upstream. As I don't know who uses OOT, I can't comment beyond that. > Thanks, > > - Greg > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
