It is decided (1) to deprecate the Linux Out of Tree (OOT) drivers. Update the NEWS and FAQ to provide notice.
1. https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-December/378831.html Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]> --- Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 7 ++++++- NEWS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst index 4b9620015..5e0bba4cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst @@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch release work with? RHEL and CentOS 7 3.10 based kernels since they have diverged from the Linux kernel.org 3.10 kernels. + Beginning with Open vSwitch branch 2.15 the Open vSwitch Out of Tree + (OOT) Linux kernel driver is deprecated and support is capped at Linux + kernel version 5.8. + Q: Are all features available with all datapaths? A: Open vSwitch supports different datapaths on different platforms. Each @@ -101,7 +105,8 @@ Q: Are all features available with all datapaths? Linux OVS tree The datapath implemented by the Linux kernel module distributed with the - OVS source tree. + OVS source tree. This datapath will be deprecated starting with OVS + 2.15.x and support capped at Linux kernel version 5.8. Userspace This datapath supports conventional system devices as well as diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d357da31d..54e9f4db4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ Post-v2.14.0 * Bareudp device support is present in linux kernel from version 5.7 * Kernel bareudp device is not backported to ovs tree. * Userspace datapath support is not added + - Support for the Linux Out of Tree (OOT) kernel driver is deprecated + * Support for the Linux kernel is capped at version 5.8 + * Only bug fixes for the Linux OOT kernel drivers will be accepted. v2.14.0 - 17 Aug 2020 -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
