On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:22 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/5/24 14:12, David Marchand wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 9:45 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Tunnel support is in upstream Linux kernel since 2013. However, > >> despite the FAQ saying so, I'm not aware of actual attempts to bring > >> support for LISP tunnels upstream. The only available implementation > >> is in OOT kernel module shipped with OVS 2.17. It is deprecated and > >> will reach EoL in Feb 2025. > >> > >> Mark the tunnel port type as deprecated, so we can fully remove the > >> support once the only available implementation reaches end of life > >> together with OVS 2.17. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> > >> --- > >> Documentation/faq/releases.rst | 16 +++++----------- > >> Documentation/howto/lisp.rst | 4 ++++ > > > > I noticed a mention of LISP tunnels in Documentation/intro/install/rhel.rst. > > This was introduced with f9ee9dcb378f ("rhel: Remove the firewall hole > > that we create for GRE.") though I don't think LISP was ever supported > > in RHEL. > > This could be removed now, or it can wait for the full removal post 3.5. > > It can be supported on RHEL if the OOT kernel module is loaded. And > we did support building OOT module for RHEL. We'll clean this up once > the support is fully removed.
Ok. > > > > Reading https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs, STT and LISP tunnels are > > still advertised as supported. > > Flagging in README.rst would make this deprecation more visible. > > I added deprecation warnings in all places where we tell how to set > them up, but I didn't want to pollute simple lists of features like > this one. Especially because 'deprecated' doesn't mean they are not > supported. > > We have a NEWS entry, warnings in documentation about specific features > and a runtime warning. It should be enough, I think. If someone reads > the readme for the first time, they'll likely look at the other parts > of the documentation to figure out how to set it up. Well, I was trying to look at it from a first user pov. Hence the README displayed in github seems more visible than the NEWS file. But if you prefer to keep it like this, fine by me. -- David Marchand _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
