On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Joe Stringer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
ok, I fixed patch to update the documentation and travis configuration. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
