On 7/12/2022 1:50 PM, David Marchand wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 8:07 PM Gregory Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/12/2022 10:56 AM, Greg Rose wrote:
As of Open vSwitch release 2.18 the OVS kernel module is no longer
supported. Pull the documentation references.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 4 +-
.../contributing/backporting-patches.rst | 7 +++
Documentation/intro/install/fedora.rst | 24 -------
Documentation/intro/install/general.rst | 63 -------------------
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
index 8cfe2d392..bf2f3438c 100644
--- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
+++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch release
work with?
2.15.x 3.16 to 5.8
2.16.x 3.16 to 5.8
2.17.x 3.16 to 5.8
+ 2.18.x N/A
============ ==============
Open vSwitch userspace should also work with the Linux kernel module
built
@@ -110,7 +111,8 @@ 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. This datapath is deprecated starting with OVS
- 2.15.x and support capped at Linux kernel version 5.8.
+ 2.15.x and support capped at Linux kernel version 5.8. As of OVS 2.18.x
+ the Linux OVS tree is no longer supported.
Userspace
This datapath supports conventional system devices as well as
diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst
b/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst
index 162e9d209..8370c954d 100644
--- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst
@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ userspace changes.
How to backport kernel patches
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+These instructions only apply to Open vSwitch releases 2.16 and older.
+As of Open vSwitch branch 2.17 the Open vSwitch kernel module is no
+longer supported and only the Linux openvswitch kernel module is used.
+In the case of Open vSwitch releases 2.16 and older kernel backports
+may be required for bux fixes and feature implementation so these
+instructions are preserved for that reason.
rats... I thought I fixed this. Should be 2.17 and 2.18 respectively,
I'll fix it up in the next rev.
Yep :-).
With this fixed, you can add:
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
Thanks, will do!
- Greg
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