[ovs-dev] [PATCH V4 1/2] doc: Deprecate the Linux Out of Tree module

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Mon Jan 11 21:51:27 UTC 2021


On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:26:49PM -0800, Greg Rose wrote:
> It is decided (1) to deprecate the Linux Out of Tree (OOT) module.
> Update the NEWS and FAQ to provide notice.

I suggest to rephrase the out of tree above as well.

fbl

> 
> 1. https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-December/378831.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> ---
> V2 - s/driver/module and add notice for when the OOT module will be
>      completely removed
> V4 - Reword the faq and NEWS as suggested by Ilya and Ben
> ---
>  Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 11 +++++++++--
>  NEWS                           |  5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> index 4b9620015..9638d3196 100644
> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> @@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch release work with?
>      RHEL and CentOS 7 3.10 based kernels since they have diverged from the
>      Linux kernel.org 3.10 kernels.
>  
> +    Starting with Open vSwitch 2.15, building the Linux kernel module from
> +    the Open vSwitch source tree is deprecated.  It will not be updated to
> +    support Linux versions later than 5.8.  We will remove the kernel module
> +    source code from the Open vSwitch source tree for the Open vSwitch 2.18
> +    release.
> +
>  Q: Are all features available with all datapaths?
>  
>      A: Open vSwitch supports different datapaths on different platforms.  Each
> @@ -100,8 +106,9 @@ Q: Are all features available with all datapaths?
>        feature.
>  
>      Linux OVS tree
> -      The datapath implemented by the Linux kernel module distributed with the
> -      OVS source tree.
> +      The datapath implemented by the Linux kernel module distributed with
> +      the OVS source tree. This datapath is deprecated starting with OVS
> +      2.15.x and support capped at Linux kernel version 5.8.
>  
>      Userspace
>        This datapath supports conventional system devices as well as
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 617fe8e6a..75048abb9 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ Post-v2.14.0
>         tearing down IPsec tunnels.
>       * Add option '--no-restart-ike-daemon' to allow ovs-monitor-ipsec to start
>         without restarting ipsec daemon.
> +   - Building the Linux kernel module from the OVS source tree is deprecated
> +     * Support for the Linux kernel is capped at version 5.8
> +     * Only bug fixes for the Linux OOT kernel module will be accepted.
> +     * The Linux OOT kernel module will be fully removed in OVS branch
> +       2.18
>  
>  
>  v2.14.0 - 17 Aug 2020
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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fbl


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