It is time to remove support for the OVS kernel driver and push towards use of the upstream Linux openvswitch kernel driver in it's place [1].
This patch series represents a first attempt but there are a few primary remaining issues that I have yet to address. A) Removal of debian packing support for the dkms kernel driver module. The debian/rules are not well known to me - I've never actually made any changes in that area and do not have a well formed understanding of how debian packaging works. I wil attempt to fix that up in upcoming patch series. B) Figuring out how the github workflow - I removed the tests I could find that depend on the Linux kernel (i.e. they use install_kernel() function. Several other tests are failing that would not seem to depend on the Linux kernel. I need to read and understand that code better. C) There are many Linux specific source modules in the datapath that will need eventual removal but some headers are still required for the userspace code (which seems counterintuitive but...) Reviews, suggestions, etc. are appreciated! 1. https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2022-April/393292.html Greg Rose (6): acinclude.m4: Remove support for building the OVS kernel module rhel: Remove kernel mode spec rhel: Remove RHEL 6 kernel module spec tests: Remove support for check-kmod test Documentation: Remove kernel module documentation Disable unsupported kernel builds .github/workflows/build-and-test.yml | 35 - Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 5 +- .../contributing/backporting-patches.rst | 7 + Documentation/intro/install/fedora.rst | 24 - Documentation/intro/install/general.rst | 63 -- acinclude.m4 | 683 +----------------- rhel/automake.mk | 17 - rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in | 123 ---- rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in | 152 ---- tests/automake.mk | 6 - 10 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1104 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in delete mode 100644 rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
