[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ovs-ctl: Remove code for upgrading from Open vSwitch 1.6 and earlier.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Mar 17 03:12:09 UTC 2016


On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:06:16PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > OVS 1.7 was released in July 2012, so by the time current OVS is released,
> > it will be almost four years old.  I think that this is long enough to
> > remove special upgrade code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at kernel.org>

Thanks!  I applied these patches to master.

> It's almost impossible to do this upgrade in any case since there is
> no overlap in the base kernel versions supported by the out of tree
> modules in the two versions (the only possibility is running the new
> version of OVS on the upstream module from Linux 3.3).

That's a great point.  I added that note in the change log, verbatim.



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