[ovs-dev] OpenvSwitch DKMS compatibility with Linux 3.11

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Wed Aug 21 23:06:56 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:06 AM, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> On 21/08/13 18:01, Jesse Gross wrote:
>>>> On 21/08/13 17:16, Jesse Gross wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> What's the status of OVS 1.12? Is this just a dev
>>>>>>>>>> branch or is it planned for release?
>>>>>> It's actually a dead branch. It looks like we're going to
>>>>>> get a few more things in and call the version after 1.11
>>>>>> 2.0.
>>>>
>>>> OK - so it sounds like I should be landing a snapshot based on
>>>> the 1.11 branch into Ubuntu Saucy - albeit with the cherry
>>>> picks for 3.10 and my patch for 3.11 ontop...
>>>>
>>>> Is that correct?
>> That sounds right to me.
>>
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> Whats the timescale around 2.0?

It's somewhat hard to say at this point since we haven't branched yet
and therefore really started stabilizing it. There's a lot of new
multithreading work in userspace which could be exciting from a
stability perspective in the interim, so I think 1.11 is probably the
right version for Saucy.



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