On 12/5/24 14:45, David Marchand wrote: > 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.
I think, it's fine as is. It'll be removed from the readme in about 2 months anyway. Thanks, Eelco and David! Applied the set to main. Will be working on the removal once 3.5 is out. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
