[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] datapath: Add support for 4.3 kernel.

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
> Kernel 4.3 is not released yet, but we need this to support
> netdev based vport in out of tree ovs module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>

Just so that we're clear, this patch is an intermediate step so that
it's easier to do incremental development of the rest of the
backports, right? In particular, I assume that we'd want to stop using
the compat code for tunnels on 4.3 and use net devices?

And of course there are plenty of things that were added to OVS in 4.3
upstream in addition to this.

I understand that why we need to re-enable the various protocol
modules now but is it possible to avoid all of the supporting code? It
seems like we should be able to continue using the upstream
implementations of GSO, socket registration, etc.