On 1/11/2021 1:51 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:26:49PM -0800, Greg Rose wrote:
It is decided (1) to deprecate the Linux Out of Tree (OOT) module.
Update the NEWS and FAQ to provide notice.
I suggest to rephrase the out of tree above as well.
fbl
I'll redo the verbiage everywhere, including the titles and see
if that flies.
Thanks,
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
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