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

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>:

On Tue,  4 Aug 2026 20:20:34 +0200 you 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.
> 
> Modern way to use tunnels with OVS is to create standard tunnel ports
> with RTM_NEWLINK + COLLECT_METADATA and add them as OVS_VPORT_TYPE_NETDEV.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,1/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel types
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/d26dcf73a8f1
  - [net-next,2/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for vport options
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/38aecd1a1973
  - [net-next,3/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for separate modules
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/2425eba0f822
  - [net-next,4/6] net: geneve: remove unused geneve_dev_create_fb
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/e5ba33295201
  - [net-next,5/6] net: gre: remove unused gretap_fb_dev_create
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/9646825a51c4
  - [net-next,6/6] net: vxlan: remove unused vxlan_dev_create
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/a5ae637f863d

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