[ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-vport: Fix support for "tap" devices.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Oct 31 19:15:27 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:02:34PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > Reported-by: Janis Hamme <janis.hamme at student.kit.edu>
>
> This doesn't make a lot of sense to me: I think the only real use for
> tap devices is for the userspace datapath where they resemble internal
> ports.  Since the userspace datapath already does this conversion
> automatically, I think the right thing to do is just remove tap
> devices from the documentation.

That's reasonable for "master" at least.  Janis (or anyone else), is
there any particular reason you want to add a tap interface to your
bridge?  In other words, is there any reason to continue supporting
this feature?



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