From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>,
Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>,
Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel ports
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 13:03:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0bd2ab2b-a664-4de6-9acd-5a7fa08c8bc0@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260804182049.2289754-1-i.maximets@ovn.org>
On 8/4/26 8:20 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> ovs-vswitchd doesn't use OVS_VPORT_TYPE_GRE/VXLAN/GENEVE with the
> Linux kernel module since adding support for standard tunnel devices
> with COLLECT_METADATA back in 2017. The code to use them was only
> activated as a fallback for old kernels, so not used in practice. And
> it is now fully removed in the upcoming OVS 4.0 release.
Given the above, that ovs-vswitchd is the only legit user this interface
the change looks very safe to me...
> 21 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 874 deletions(-)
... and this is a very compelling reason to have it in ASAP.
/P
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-04 18:20 [PATCH net-next 0/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel ports Ilya Maximets
2026-08-04 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel types Ilya Maximets
2026-08-04 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for vport options Ilya Maximets
2026-08-04 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for separate modules Ilya Maximets
2026-08-04 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: geneve: remove unused geneve_dev_create_fb Ilya Maximets
2026-08-04 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: gre: remove unused gretap_fb_dev_create Ilya Maximets
2026-08-04 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: vxlan: remove unused vxlan_dev_create Ilya Maximets
2026-08-06 11:03 ` Paolo Abeni [this message]
2026-08-06 13:20 ` [PATCH net-next 0/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel ports patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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