[ovs-dev] [PATCH] doc: Make explicit that ovs-vswitchd is the preferred switch.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Jul 15 21:48:03 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:21:56PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:50:31PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > > Many people who are looking for an OpenFlow switch assume that
> > > the only way to do it is using ovs-openflowd.  Sometimes they also
> > > run ovs-vswitchd at the same time.  Try to clarify that neither
> > > of these are necessary and ovs-vswitchd can handle OpenFlow by
> > > itself and is the preferred method of doing so.
> >
> > I think I'd put it even more strongly, something closer to "Do not run
> > ovs-openflowd and ovs-vswitchd at the same time."  If you do keep the
> > current wording then "in is not necessary" => "it is not necessary".
> >
> 
> I changed "it is not necessary" to "you should not".

Thanks.




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