[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Add support for Linux 3.12

[Pravin Shelar]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:01 AM, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> On 19/11/13 17:46, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> From 3.12 kernel, ovs can start using kernel API for gre and vxlan
>> tunneling. Can you turn off compat tunnel code for kernel 3.12 and
>> newer?
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> How does LISP tunnelling work? Will disabling the compat tunnel code
> break LISP? - which is pretty much the only reason we are retaining
> the dkms datapath module in Ubuntu 14.04.
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I think we can use upstream APIs for lisp too, Do you see a problem?

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> James Page
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