On 1/6/2021 4:34 AM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
On 1/5/21 7:33 PM, Greg Rose wrote:
As agreed in (1) deprecate the Linux OOT driver.
github Build and Test here:
https://github.com/gvrose8192/ovs-experimental/actions/runs/463987690
1. https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-December/378831.html
Greg Rose (2):
doc: Deprecate the Linux Out of Tree drivers
acinclude: Warn when --with-linux parameter is supplied
Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 7 ++++++-
NEWS | 3 +++
acinclude.m4 | 1 +
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks for the patches!
Few general comments:
1. Word 'driver' sounds weird to me. 'kennel module' is more commonly
used term, I think. We're using term 'driver' for windows datapath,
but it seems like windows-specific thing. In Linux world 'driver' is
usually something that talks directly to hardware and that is not
the case for openvswitch.ko and other parts.
I'd say that we need to do s/kernel driver/kernel module/ in this
patch set.
Sure, not a problem.
2. We need to specify the date of removal in NEWS and docs. I'd say
that we could state that OOT kernel module will be removed in 2.16.
BTW, from the development point of view it might be good to remove
it as soon as 2.15 branched/released.
Do we actually want to remove it or just leave it deprecated but still
there?
And when we say remove it does that mean just disable the '--with-linux'
configure option or would we be removing all the code as well? I just
want to make sure we define removal the same way.
Thanks,
- Greg
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