[ovs-dev] [PATCH] FAQ: Add entry on GRE module conflicts.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Fri Jan 3 17:51:24 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> +A: On Linux kernels before 3.11, the OVS GRE module and Linux GRE module
>> +   cannot be loaded at the same time. It is likely that on your system
>> the
>> +   Linux GRE module is already loaded and blocking OVS (to confirm, check
>> +   dmesg for errors regarding GRE registration). To fix this, unload all
>> +   GRE modules that appear in lsmod as well as the Open vSwitch kernel
>> +   module. You can then reload the OVS module following the directions in
>
>
> It's probably obvious that they're the same, but I would make both of the
> final references to the OVS kernel module the same (eg, either "Open vSwitch
> kernel module" or "OVS module").   I'd probably go with "OVS kernel module",
> since it's relatively short and unambiguous.
>
> Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>

Thanks, I made that change and pushed this to master.



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