It is some time now since the OOT kernel module was removed, and it is no longer present in any released versions. And yet longer since it was deprecated.
However, running user-space with the OOT kernel module from unsupported releases is still supported. This notice deprecates that support as of the v3.7 release. With the intention to remove it in the v3.8 release. As discussed at OVS+OVN Conference 2025. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]> --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f9a74df1ad52..dbfca161858e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ Post-v3.6.0 * New ovsdb_idl_txn_assert_read_only() interface to mark transactions as read-only and trigger assertion failure when application attempts to modify the database data through this transaction. + - Deprecation of support for running OVS user-space with OOT kernel module + * The OOT kernel module refers to the kernel module that was + previously distributed as part of OVS - out of Tree (OOT) from + the perspective of the upstream Kernel tree. + * The OOT kernel module itself was previously: deprecated in v2.15; + removed from the OVS tree in v3.0; and is no longer present in any + supported release since v3.0 went EOL when v3.6 was released. v3.6.0 - 18 Aug 2025 -- 2.47.3 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
