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[195.231.44.239]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4994e980559sm118088885e9.2.2026.08.06.04.03.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <0bd2ab2b-a664-4de6-9acd-5a7fa08c8bc0@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 13:03:40 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel ports To: Ilya Maximets , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Simon Horman , Aaron Conole , Eelco Chaudron , David Ahern , Ido Schimmel , Shuah Khan , Kuniyuki Iwashima , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Fernando Fernandez Mancera , Antoine Tenart , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org References: <20260804182049.2289754-1-i.maximets@ovn.org> From: Paolo Abeni Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <20260804182049.2289754-1-i.maximets@ovn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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