Well, the last released version of ovs-2.3.1 was in Dec/03/2014 (per NEWS)
and there is no formal plan discussed about ovs-2.4 in any of the mailing
lists. I see there is ovs-2.3.2 documented in NEWS with xxx suggesting there
will be a release sometime in future. Unless there is a certified and tested
refresh of ovs (ovs-2.3.2 or ovs-2.4), how would you expect ovs to build on
latest Centos?
Trying to cherry-pick just the master patch for RHEL-7.1 as pointed out
by Joe does not seem to work in branch-2.3. I can get back what else was
needed to build branch-2.3 if there is a plan to make it available in
ovs-2.3.2.
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Ben Pfaff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:46:45PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
OVS userspace can work with the OVS kernel module distributed with the
kernel. This provides a straightforward workaround.
I don't understand the comment about updating the FAQ/NEWS version
matrix. It already states that 2.3 supports Linux 2.6.32 to 3.14, and
explicitly mentions that modified kernels like RHEL can break the
build for the kernel module in the OVS tree.
I briefly looked at this, and it involves more than just
cherry-picking my commit from above. All of the required patches
should be available on master, so it should be primarily a matter of
figuring out exactly which commits need to be cherry-picked back to
branch-2.3. If you're eager to look into exactly what's needed, that
would be useful information; otherwise I expect that someone will look
into it when they get some free cycles.
We don't normally add support for new kernels to released branches.
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