[ovs-dev] [PATCH] README: Make it clear that ovs-openflowd is an alternative to ovs-vswitchd.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Thu Oct 14 18:10:03 UTC 2010
Thanks, I pushed this.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:08:35AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> Looks good.
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:30:41AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> >> Looks good. Vishal pointed out that the man page for ovs-openflowd
> >> also doesn't mention that it shouldn't be run with ovs-vswitchd. It
> >> may be nice to add something there, too.
> >
> > Sure. Here's a new version.
> >
> > --8<--------------------------cut here-------------------------->8--
> >
> > From: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:44:26 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH] docs: Make it clear that ovs-openflowd is an alternative to ovs-vswitchd.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Vishal Swarankar <vishal.swarnkar at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > AUTHORS | 1 +
> > README | 6 +++---
> > utilities/ovs-openflowd.8.in | 3 +++
> > vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in | 3 +++
> > 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
> > index 3364fa2..9adaa6d 100644
> > --- a/AUTHORS
> > +++ b/AUTHORS
> > @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ Srini Seetharaman seethara at stanford.edu
> > Stephen Hemminger shemminger at vyatta.com
> > Takayuki HAMA t-hama at cb.jp.nec.com
> > Teemu Koponen koponen at nicira.com
> > +Vishal Swarankar vishal.swarnkar at gmail.com
> > kk yap yapkke at stanford.edu
> >
> > Thanks to all Open vSwitch contributors. If you are not listed above
> > diff --git a/README b/README
> > index 55e9d9c..16f2ee6 100644
> > --- a/README
> > +++ b/README
> > @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ The main components of this distribution are:
> > Open vSwitch also provides an OpenFlow implementation and tools for
> > those interested in OpenFlow but not additional Open vSwitch features:
> >
> > - * ovs-openflowd, a program that implements a simple OpenFlow
> > - switch (without the special features provided by ovs-vswitchd)
> > - using the same kernel module as ovs-vswitchd.
> > + * ovs-openflowd, an alternative to ovs-vswitchd that implements a
> > + simple OpenFlow switch, without the special features provided by
> > + ovs-vswitchd.
> >
> > * ovs-controller, a simple OpenFlow controller.
> >
> > diff --git a/utilities/ovs-openflowd.8.in b/utilities/ovs-openflowd.8.in
> > index 4c10d8d..30b3705 100644
> > --- a/utilities/ovs-openflowd.8.in
> > +++ b/utilities/ovs-openflowd.8.in
> > @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ The \fBovs\-openflowd\fR program implements an OpenFlow switch using a
> > flow-based datapath. \fBovs\-openflowd\fR connects to one or more
> > OpenFlow controllers over TCP or SSL.
> > .PP
> > +For a more powerful alternative to \fBovs\-openflowd\fR, see
> > +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR(8). Do not run both daemons at the same time.
> > +.PP
> > The mandatory \fIdatapath\fR argument argument specifies the local datapath
> > to relay. It takes one of the following forms:
> > .
> > diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in
> > index 42282c1..e59893f 100644
> > --- a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in
> > +++ b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in
> > @@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ Only a single instance of \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR is intended to run at a time.
> > A single \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR can manage any number of switch instances, up
> > to the maximum number of supported Open vSwitch datapaths.
> > .PP
> > +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR provides all the features of \fBovs-openflowd\fR,
> > +and more. Do not run both daemons at the same time.
> > +.PP
> > \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR does all the necessary management of Open vSwitch datapaths
> > itself. Thus, external tools, such \fBovs\-dpctl\fR(8), are not needed for
> > managing datapaths in conjunction with \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR, and their use
> > --
> > 1.7.1
> >
>
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