On 7/7/2022 1:27 AM, David Marchand wrote:
Hi Greg,
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 11:57 PM Gregory Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/6/2022 9:57 AM, Greg Rose wrote:
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...)
The easier would be to move the current copy we have in the datapath/
under the include/openvswitch/ directory.
Am I missing something else?
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
It seems I should have put the last patch first... Will reorder
the series and resend V2.
- In this series, there are mentions of the removal happening in 2.17,
while we are working on 2.18.
- That there are still other things to remove in the rhel/ directory,
I'll try to send a summary by tomorrow.
- We should keep the AF_XDP test and building the kernel should
remain, as Ilya suggested.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/[email protected]/#2888008
Thanks for this review and the others. I'll be incorporating these
review suggestions from this and your other responses into a V2
patch series.
- Greg
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