On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:35 PM Ihar Hrachyshka <[email protected]> wrote:
> The dependency is during build time, not runtime. > > Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka <[email protected]> > --- > Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst | 18 ++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst > b/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst > index bb387e2f8..1f99a86ec 100644 > --- a/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst > +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst > @@ -40,13 +40,19 @@ Release Notes > You should always check the OVS and OVN release notes (NEWS file) for any > release specific notes on upgrades. > > -OVS > ---- > +Open vSwitch > +------------ > > -OVN depends on and is included with OVS. It's expected that OVS and OVN > are > -upgraded together, partly for convenience. OVN is included in OVS > releases > -so it's easiest to upgrade them together. OVN may also make use of new > -features of OVS only available in that release. > +OVN compiles with a particular version of Open vSwitch. This is a > build-time > +dependency. > + > +In runtime, OVN should be able to work with any reasonably fresh version > of > +Open vSwitch (not necessarily the version that it was compiled against.) > + > +OVN may make use of new runtime features of Open vSwitch that are only > +available in a particular release. OVN is expected to test for an Open > vSwitch > +feature presence before using it, and gracefully handle scenarios where > Open > +vSwitch doesn't support a particular optional feature, yet. > > Upgrade procedures > ------------------ > -- > 2.41.0 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev > > Looks good to me, thanks. Acked-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]> -- Ales Musil Senior Software Engineer - OVN Core Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com> [email protected] <https://red.ht/sig> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
