[ovs-dev] fix compilation on FreeBSD

[Ben Pfaff]

The route-table implementation is definitely not portable, but I don't
think there's anything in the interface that can't be implemented in
FreeBSD.  One proper solution, then, would be to add an implementation
that works in FreeBSD.  I'd certainly take such an implementation.

Ethan, I can't remember how you plan to get rid of route-table.  Can you
remind me?  If we can drop it entirely, then that would be even better,
since it would reduce the required porting surface.

Thanks,

Ben.

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:19:46PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> FWIW it seems to me that our use of route_table_get_name() is a bit of
> a layering violation.  Given that netdev-vport and ofproto-dpif-sflow
> should be portable, they shouldn't call into linux specific code.
> Ideally I'd love to simply ditch the route_table code entirely, but
> I'm not sure I have time at the moment.
> 
> Ethan
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > I think it would be better to implement route_table_get_name() under
> > FreeBSD.  At any rate, I can't apply a patch that adds such invasive
> > #ifdefs, so at a minimum we'll have to figure out a better way to do
> > this.
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