On 6/22/26 3:41 PM, Timothy Redaelli via dev wrote: > These network testing tools are barely used nowadays. Standard tools > like iperf are preferred for performance testing. Remove the utilities, > their man pages, the supporting ovstest Python module, and all build > system and packaging references. > > --- > v3: > - Resend the whole series because patchwork managed to lose patch 2/4 > while the mailing list archives had it just fine. Apparently > patchwork thought it had it but couldn't be bothered to actually > report it through its API. No changes whatsoever -- just patchwork > being patchwork. > > v2: > - Split the single patch into a series removing one thing at a time. [Ilya] > - Removed the "system tests cover basic connectivity" justification, > since system tests run at build/CI time and serve a different purpose > than these user-facing tools. [Ilya] > - Also remove ovs-vlan-test, which is a predecessor of ovs-test and > is no longer relevant (designed for 2.6.x kernel VLAN bugs). [Ilya] > - Keep Breaks/Replaces clauses in debian/control.in (they are needed > for OVS 3.0 packaging compatibility, unrelated to this change). [Ilya]
Thanks, Timothy! I refactored the NEWS entries a little as we will be removing more tools and it's better to list them together. And added subject prefixes to commits as we normally do. With that and with the fixed line continuation in the third patch, applied to main. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
