On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:01 PM Greg Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The documentation matrix for OVS branches and which kernels they support
> is out of date.  Update it to show that since 2.10 the lowest kernel
> that we test and support is Linux 3.16.
>
> RHEL and CentOS kernels based upon the original 3.10 kernel are still
> supported.
>
> Reported-by: Han Zhou <[email protected]>
> Reported-at:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-May/370742.html
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> index 3903e59..e5cef39 100644
> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> @@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch
release work with?
>      2.7.x        3.10 to 4.9
>      2.8.x        3.10 to 4.12
>      2.9.x        3.10 to 4.13
> -    2.10.x       3.10 to 4.17
> -    2.11.x       3.10 to 4.18
> -    2.12.x       3.10 to 5.0
> -    2.14.x       3.10 to 5.5
> +    2.10.x       3.16 to 4.17
> +    2.11.x       3.16 to 4.18
> +    2.12.x       3.16 to 5.0
> +    2.14.x       3.16 to 5.5
>      ============ ==============
>
>      Open vSwitch userspace should also work with the Linux kernel module
built
> @@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch
release work with?
>      Open vSwitch userspace is not sensitive to the Linux kernel
version.  It
>      should build against almost any kernel, certainly against 2.6.32 and
later.
>
> +    Open vSwitch branches 2.10 through 2.14 will still compile against
the
> +    RHEL and CentOS 7 3.10 based kernels since they have diverged from
the
> +    Linux kernel.org 3.10 kernels.
> +
>  Q: Are all features available with all datapaths?
>
>      A: Open vSwitch supports different datapaths on different
platforms.  Each
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

Acked-by: Han Zhou <[email protected]>
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