[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ovs: add brcompat configuration option

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Tue Jun 26 15:44:29 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Tony Zelenoff <antonz at parallels.com> wrote:
> It is good, when linux bridge compatibility is present inside
> kernel in case there is lot of scripts written, which are using
> standart bridge-utilities.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Zelenoff <antonz at parallels.com>

We intentionally did not include any compatibility code in the
upstream version of Open vSwitch.  It's intended only as a temporary
transition tool and not something that we see as the correct model
going forward.  If you want to use bridge compatibility, you must use
the out of tree version.



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