On 23 February 2016 at 17:06, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> wrote: >> Currently OVS out of tree datapath supports a large number of kernel >> versions. From 2.6.32 to 4.3 and various distribution-specific >> kernels. But at this point major features are only available on more >> recent kernels. For example, stateful services are only available >> starting in kernel 3.10 and STT is available on starting with 3.5. >> >> Since these features are becoming essential to many OVS deployments, >> and the effort of maintaining the backports is high. We have decided >> to drop support for older kernel. Following patch drops supports >> for kernel older than 3.10. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> > > I haven't reviewed the whole patch but I think we should add this to > the FAQ entry about kernel versions and NEWS.
.travis.yml can be updated to drop the earlier builds, too. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
