[ovs-dev] OVS "soft freeze" for 2.15 is in effect.

[Gregory Rose]

On 1/1/2021 3:07 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> Hi.  As described in Documentation/internals/release-process.rst, we are
> in a "soft freeze" state:
> 
>     During the freeze, we ask committers to refrain from applying patches that
>     add new features unless those patches were already being publicly discussed
>     and reviewed before the freeze began.  Bug fixes are welcome at any time.
>     Please propose and discuss exceptions on ovs-dev.
> 
> We should branch for version 2.15 in two weeks from now, on Friday, January 15.
> 
> Current known exception that will likely be accepted during soft-freeze, but
> not prepared/reviewed yet:
>    - Out-of-tree kernel module deprecation patches.
>      (Mostly documentation updates)


Hi Ilya,

The patch to deprecate the OOT kernel drivers is posted here:

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-January/379205.html

Thanks,

- Greg