[ovs-dev] Bug#691438: openvswitch packages do not work well together with upstream's kernel module

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:13:40PM +0100, Arno Toell wrote:
> This is a short state update. I'm currently lacking time to explain in
> detail but I will, once I have some time to show some evidence of what I
> mean.
> 
> > No.  From the FAQ available at http://openvswitch.org/faq/:
> ...
> 
> >        - Bridge compatibility, that is, support for the ovs-brcompatd
> >          daemon that (if you enable it) lets "brctl" and other Linux
> >          bridge tools transparently work with Open vSwitch instead.
> 
> I think you got me wrong on that. I was merely requesting to make it
> possible to use the mainline ovs kernel module, but the Debian DKMS
> bridge module at the same time. That caused some trouble last time I
> tried. I had to use either both modules from DKMS, or no bridge
> compatibility module at all.

It's absolutely true that you can't use the brcompat module from
out-of-tree Open vSwitch along with the openvswitch module from upstream
Linux.  It won't work, sorry.