[ovs-dev] [RFC net-next 22/22] openvswitch: Use regular GRE net_device instead of vport

[Thomas Graf]

On 07/16/15 at 02:36pm, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch> wrote:
> > I'm inclined to change this and use an in-kernel API as well to
> > create the net_device just like VXLAN does in patch 21.
> >
> > Pravin, what do you think?
> 
> About the vxlan APIs we also need to direct netlink interface for
> userspace to configure vxlan device. This will allow us to remove
> vxlan compat code from ovs vport-netdev.c in future.

Do you mean creating the tunnel devices from user space? This would
break existing users of the OVS Netlink interface. How do you want
to prevent that?