Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel ports

Paolo Abeni <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2026 13:03:40 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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