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

[Tony Zelenoff]

26/06/12 7:44 PM, Jesse Gross пишет:
> 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.
May be i not in the trend, but this can help to switch more users to 
open vswitch model in case of most people do not like to rewrite scripts 
used to maintain bridges. After including compatibility layer inside 
kernel - linux distro vendors may flawlessly update kernel and force 
open vswith usage without thoughts about breaking somebody's bridge.

>  If you want to use bridge compatibility, you must use
> the out of tree version.
Ok, hope this patchset may help somebody )