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

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Jan 5 20:23:20 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 03:07:43PM -0500, Patrick Mullaney wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:09 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:43:56PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether we arrived at consensus here?
> 
> Sorry, I should have followed up earlier. I think we need to
> enable it until we have it running side by side. We can't
> backport the patch for kernels already in the field and
> backports in general need to be deemed extremely critical(its
> a high bar so it would take a while anyway).

OK.  I'll push this series after giving it another day or so in case
anyone else has further comments.




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