I am not a fan of the term "out of tree" because it assumes that the reader knows what tree you're talking about. I would guess that people reading OVS documentation tend to be thinking about OVS, not Linux, so if they're thinking about any tree at all, it's the OVS tree.
So: > + Beginning with Open vSwitch branch 2.15 the Open vSwitch Out of Tree > + (OOT) Linux kernel module is deprecated and support is capped at Linux > + kernel version 5.8. The Linux OOT kernel module will be fully removed > + from Open vSwitch in branch 2.18. "Starting with Open vSwitch 2.15, building the Linux kernel module from the Open vSwitch source tree is deprecated. It will not be updated to support Linux versions later than 5.8. We will remove the kernel module source code from the Open vSwitch source tree for the Open vSwitch 2.18 release." > + - Support for the Linux Out of Tree (OOT) kernel module is deprecated "Building the Linux kernel module from the OVS source tree is deprecated" > + * Support for the Linux kernel is capped at version 5.8 > + * Only bug fixes for the Linux OOT kernel module will be accepted. > + * The Linux OOT kernel module will be fully removed in OVS branch > + 2.18 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
