The dependency is during build time, not runtime. Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrac...@redhat.com> --- Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst index bb387e2f8..1f99a86ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst @@ -40,13 +40,19 @@ Release Notes You should always check the OVS and OVN release notes (NEWS file) for any release specific notes on upgrades. -OVS ---- +Open vSwitch +------------ -OVN depends on and is included with OVS. It's expected that OVS and OVN are -upgraded together, partly for convenience. OVN is included in OVS releases -so it's easiest to upgrade them together. OVN may also make use of new -features of OVS only available in that release. +OVN compiles with a particular version of Open vSwitch. This is a build-time +dependency. + +In runtime, OVN should be able to work with any reasonably fresh version of +Open vSwitch (not necessarily the version that it was compiled against.) + +OVN may make use of new runtime features of Open vSwitch that are only +available in a particular release. OVN is expected to test for an Open vSwitch +feature presence before using it, and gracefully handle scenarios where Open +vSwitch doesn't support a particular optional feature, yet. Upgrade procedures ------------------ -- 2.41.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
