[ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC] configure: make name openvswitch_mod configurable

[Chris Wright]

* Ben Pfaff (blp at nicira.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:28:50PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > This is just an RFC, partly because it ignores datapath/ so you could
> > build a module that the runtime can't install.  Now that the ovs datapath
> > is upstream and named simply openvswitch, tools like ovs-ctl fail to
> > function w/ the native datapath module.  This is a simple example using
> > an environment variable of making the name configurable with:
> > 
> >   ./configure OVSKMOD=openvswitch
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I wonder whether we should just drop the "_mod" from our out-of-tree
> module names.  Seems simpler and less confusing in the long run.
> 
> What do you think?

I'd prefer that, shall I send a patch for that?

thanks,
-chris