[ovs-dev] [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch STT support

[John Xiao]

Thanks Pravin for sharing the patch.

One question on STT IP, is it free to use STT in commercial products?
I believe Nicira has patents on this.

Thanks,
John


On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Pravin Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:20 AM, John W. Linville
> <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:55:25AM -0800, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>>> STT patches were posted on netdev mailing list, But it was rejected.
>>> As policy datapath patches must be accepted first in upstream kernel
>>> before ported to OVS repo. But considering STT is well known protocol,
>>> it is used in production and it can be useful for community, we can
>>> make exception for STT and maintain it in OVS repo.
>>> If anyone has objection to merging STT support let us know.
>>
>> What is preventing the upstream merge?
>>
>
> Here is link to netdev patch, you can have a look at the discussion.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=142257416618642&w=2
>
>> --
>> John W. Linville                Someday the world will need a hero, and you
>> linville at tuxdriver.com                  might be all we have.  Be ready.
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