On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:04:56PM +0100, Ilya Maximets wrote: > On 09.08.2019 12:23, Ilya Maximets wrote: > > On 01.08.2019 20:48, Aaron Conole wrote: > > > Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@samsung.com> writes: > > > > However, there is an additional issue with branch-2.5: > > > > > > > > branch-2.5 has kernel 2.6.32 in the .travis.yml, but gcc >= 5 is not > > > > able to build this kernel. This kernel reached its EOL few years ago > > > > already and will never be fixed. So, there are few options for this > > > > issue: > > > > > > > > 1. Simply remove 2.6.32 kernel from the build matrix. > > > > (I have a simple patch for this.) > > > > For branch-2.5 I'm waiting for more comments/Ack on the patch: > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-August/361422.html > > > > Backports to this branch will go along with applying above patch. > > Hi Ben, > > This discussion happened while you were out of office, but I'd like to > hear your opinion on this issue with branch-2.5 that still exists.
My initial thought is that we don't have a clear obligation to support an end-of-lifed upstream kernel. I haven't read the whole thread to see whether there's a reason to do so anyway, but if not then removing 2.6.32 from the build matrix seems reasonable. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
