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 <gvrose8...@gmail.com> --- V2 - s/driver/module and add notice for when the OOT module will be completely removed V4 - Reword the faq and NEWS as suggested by Ilya and Ben --- Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 11 +++++++++-- NEWS | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst index 4b9620015..9638d3196 100644 --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst @@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ 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. + 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. + Q: Are all features available with all datapaths? A: Open vSwitch supports different datapaths on different platforms. Each @@ -100,8 +106,9 @@ Q: Are all features available with all datapaths? feature. Linux OVS tree - The datapath implemented by the Linux kernel module distributed with the - OVS source tree. + The datapath implemented by the Linux kernel module distributed with + the OVS source tree. This datapath is 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 617fe8e6a..75048abb9 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. + - 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 v2.14.0 - 17 Aug 2020 -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
