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| author | Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> | 2022-07-14 14:23:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> | 2022-07-15 13:45:55 +0200 |
| commit | 3476bd3932b01767fc0b2a564d9d8bf117726e3a (patch) | |
| tree | 0844be89a8b43bd7083ba638af99a7bac346c6f4 /Documentation/internals | |
| parent | dc433e25ee422fc4b7f062735fbfe12f644e7895 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-3476bd3932b01767fc0b2a564d9d8bf117726e3a.tar.gz | |
Documentation: Remove kernel module documentation.
As of Open vSwitch release 2.18 the OVS kernel module is no longer
supported. Pull the documentation references.
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/internals')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst b/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst index 162e9d209..d0a58f8de 100644 --- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst @@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ userspace changes. How to backport kernel patches ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +These instructions only apply to Open vSwitch releases 2.17 and older. +As of Open vSwitch branch 2.18 the Open vSwitch kernel module is no +longer supported and only the Linux openvswitch kernel module is used. +In the case of Open vSwitch releases 2.17 and older, kernel backports +may be required for bux fixes and feature implementation so these +instructions are preserved for that reason. + First, the patch should be submitted upstream to `netdev`. When the patch has been applied to `net-next`, it is ready to be backported. Starting from the Linux tree, use ``git format-patch`` to format each patch that should be |