On 6 May 2026, at 0:52, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> Windows support was deprecated in 3.7, it's time to remove it.
> The next bit is the actual datapath implementation.
>
> Also removing mentions of the Windows kernel support from the
> releases documentation and vswitch man pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> ---
One small nit below, but the rest looks good to me.
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
[...]
> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> index 1db42ad5c..e7227820f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch
> release work with?
> source code was completely removed from the Open vSwitch source tree in
> 3.0 release.
>
> +Q: Does Open vSwitch support running on Windows (Hyper-V)?
> +
> + A: Support for the Windows datapath, a.k.a. Hyper-V, was deprecated
> starting
> + with Open vSwitch 3.7 and the source code was completely removed from the
> + Open vSwitch source tree in the next release.
Should we put 3.8 in here explicitly? Also, my spellchecker complains about a
missing command after 3.7.
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