[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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