On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 10:10 PM Greg Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Since the openvswitch project inception it has had support for building
> a Linux kernel module to support the OVS kernel datapath.  Since Linux
> kernel release 5.8 support for newer kernels has been deprecated.  Now
> is the time to fully discontinue support for building the openvswitch
> kernel driver. Since Linux 5.9 the Linux built-in openvswitch kernel
> driver supports all necessary features and functions of the kernel
> datapath and the need to support this additional "out of tree" kernel
> module is gone.
>
> Remove the --with-linux configuration support from the acinclude.m4
> configuration and warn user it is not supported any longer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]>

At this point of the series, I still see calls to --with-linux.
Like:
utilities/ovs-dev.py:    _sh(*(configure +
["--with-linux=/lib/modules/%s/build" % uname()]))


-- 
David Marchand

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