On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 03:18:15PM +0200, Eelco Chaudron wrote: > > > On 22 Apr 2025, at 17:46, Simon Horman wrote: > > > Remove documentation relating to backporting upstream changes to the OOT > > kernel module. This turns out to be most of the documentation for kernel > > changes. And I have reworked the remaining kernel datapath in the > > interest of readability. > > > > Support for the OOT module was removed in the v3.0 release of Open vSwitch. > > And is now no longer supported by any maintained versions of Open vSwitch. > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@ovn.org> > > Hi Simon, > > One suggestion below, the rest looks good to me. > > //Eelco > > > --- > > .../internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst | 175 > > ++------------------- > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst > > b/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst > > index 2007a429c7bc..ade0f74b6050 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst > > @@ -49,19 +49,8 @@ most recent `branch-X.Y`, then earlier `branch-X.Z`, and > > so on. The most common > > kind of patch in this category is a bugfix which affects main and other > > branches. > > > > -For Linux datapath code, the primary development branch is in the > > `net-next`_ > > -tree as described in the section below, and patch discussion occurs on the > > -`netdev`__ mailing list. Patches are first applied to the upstream branch > > by the > > -networking maintainers, then the contributor backports the patch to an Open > > -vSwitch branch. Patches in this category may include features which have > > -been applied upstream, or bugfixes to the Open vSwitch datapath code. > > - > > -The practice for Linux datapath code described above is currently only > > -applicable to bugfixes for Open vSwitch 2.17. This is because all earlier > > -versions are EOL and all subsequent versions do not include the Linux > > -datapath as it is now maintained as part of the upstream Linux kernel. > > - > > -__ https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ > > +Changes to the Linux kernel components in Open vSwitch go through review in > > +the upstream Linux Netdev community as described in the section below. > > > > Maybe remove the kernel reference from this section completely, as it’s > mentioned below in a seperate section?
Sure, I was wondering about that too. It doesn't seem to fit well anymore. I'll remove it for v2. ... _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
