On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:58 PM Greg Rose <[email protected]> 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].
>
> 1.  https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2022-april/393292.html
>
> Changes in V2:
> * Removed the Linux datapath and fixed up various Makefiles to adjust
> * Moved openvswitch.h from datapath/linux/compat/include to include/linux
>   and fixed up the Makefiles to adjust
> * Removed further instances in utilities and auxiliary files where the
>   --with-linux configuration command was still being used.
> * Changed order of patches to (hopefully) fix up some robot auto-test
>   errors
>
> Changes in V3:
> * Squashed the two patches removing rhel specs due to interdependence
>   between the two that caused build errors between application of each
>   of the patches
> * Moved the changes to acinclude.m4 towards the end of the series
>
> Changes in V4:
> * Changed up the order of the patches again to fix robot errors
> * Added back most of the tests in .github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
> * Removed xenserver and related documentation, test scripts and makefile
>   dependencies

There are probably more cleanups to do for xenserver, but the focus
should be on OVS kmod removal and this xenserver stuff can be finished
later, so I am fine with the current patch.

>
> Still to do:
> * Figure out why a certain 4 tests always fail with 'make check' in the
>   github workflows but do not fail on my own system.

Allez !
I think we are close to something working.

The v5 will be the one :-).


-- 
David Marchand

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