[ovs-dev] Travis build failures due to base image change to Xenial.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 06:24:44PM +0100, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 28.10.2019 18:05, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:04:56PM +0100, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > > On 09.08.2019 12:23, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > > > On 01.08.2019 20:48, Aaron Conole wrote:
> > > > > Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com> writes:
> > > > > > However, there is an additional issue with branch-2.5:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > branch-2.5 has kernel 2.6.32 in the .travis.yml, but gcc >= 5 is not
> > > > > > able to build this kernel. This kernel reached its EOL few years ago
> > > > > > already and will never be fixed. So, there are few options for this issue:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 1. Simply remove 2.6.32 kernel from the build matrix.
> > > > > >      (I have a simple patch for this.)
> > > > 
> > > > For branch-2.5 I'm waiting for more comments/Ack on the patch:
> > > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-August/361422.html
> > > > 
> > > > Backports to this branch will go along with applying above patch.
> > > 
> > > Hi Ben,
> > > 
> > > This discussion happened while you were out of office, but I'd like to
> > > hear your opinion on this issue with branch-2.5 that still exists.
> > 
> > My initial thought is that we don't have a clear obligation to support
> > an end-of-lifed upstream kernel.  I haven't read the whole thread to see
> > whether there's a reason to do so anyway, but if not then removing
> > 2.6.32 from the build matrix seems reasonable.
> 
> OK. So, can I treat this as an ACK for above mentioned patch?

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>