On 1/11/2021 9:28 AM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
On 1/7/21 8:36 PM, Greg Rose wrote:
It is decided (1) to deprecate the Linux Out of Tree (OOT) module.
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]>
---
V2 - s/driver/module and add notice for when the OOT module will be
completely removed
---
Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 8 +++++++-
NEWS | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
index 4b9620015..d96894221 100644
--- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
+++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ 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 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.
+
Q: Are all features available with all datapaths?
A: Open vSwitch supports different datapaths on different platforms. Each
@@ -101,7 +106,8 @@ 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
Shouldn't this be in a present tense? i.e. 'is' instead of 'will be'.
Otherwise, please, send a new version taking comments from Ben into account.
Yes, it should be. I'll fix that up in V4.
Thanks,
- Greg
+ 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 617fe8e6a..b664d94eb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ Post-v2.14.0
tearing down IPsec tunnels.
* Add option '--no-restart-ike-daemon' to allow ovs-monitor-ipsec to
start
without restarting ipsec daemon.
+ - Support for the Linux Out of Tree (OOT) kernel module 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
v2.14.0 - 17 Aug 2020
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