[ovs-dev] [suse 6/7] xenserver: Add defaults for ENABLE_BRCOMPAT, ENABLE_FAKE_PROC_NET.

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Patrick Mullaney <pm.mullaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 11:20 -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
>> Do we expect that the general case is that we want to enable bridge compatibility?
> My thought was yes, at least until ovs and the standard bridge can run
> side by side( I think I heard that was planned?). For the stable
> distros with older kernels, this may be a needed for a while though.

It's already possible for OVS and the Linux bridge to operate
side-by-side but it required upstream Linux changes that aren't
available until 2.6.36, so it might take a little while to trickle
down.