It is time to remove support for the OVS kernel driver and push towards use of the upstream Linux openvswitch kernel driver in it's place [1].
There are many Linux specific source modules in the datapath that will need eventual removal but some headers are still required for the userspace code (which seems counterintuitive but...) 1. https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2022-April/393292.html Greg Rose (6): acinclude.m4: Remove support for building the OVS kernel module rhel: Remove kernel mode spec rhel: Remove RHEL 6 kernel module spec tests: Remove support for check-kmod test Documentation: Remove kernel module documentation Disable unsupported kernel builds .github/workflows/build-and-test.yml | 53 -- Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 5 +- .../contributing/backporting-patches.rst | 7 + Documentation/intro/install/fedora.rst | 24 - Documentation/intro/install/general.rst | 63 -- acinclude.m4 | 683 +----------------- rhel/automake.mk | 17 - rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in | 123 ---- rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in | 152 ---- tests/automake.mk | 6 - 10 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1122 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in delete mode 100644 rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
