[ovs-discuss] vport-patch functionality in mainstream

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at openvz.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we'd like to add the Open vSwitch kernel module to OpenVZ kernel,
> in order to do that we've backported the appropriate code from mainstream
> kernel.
>
> It turned out that the vport-patch functionality could be also very useful
> for us,
> so we are looking for possibility to include it to our kernel as well.
>
> Unfortunately mainstream does not have vport-patch functionality at the
> moment and
> porting vport-patch related code from openvswitch.org git and incorporating
> it into
> the code taken from mainstream appeared to be not a straightforward task.
>
> On the other hand i've found that Open vSwitch FAQ says:
> "Work is in progress in adding these features ["patch" in particular] to the
> upstream Linux version of the Open vSwitch kernel module."

The FAQ doesn't contain the phrase that you added in brackets so what
you have here is very misleading.  The work that this refers to is
tunneling.

> So can you please clarify:
> * is that info in FAQ still valid and the work for "patch" inclusion in
> mainstream is in progress?
> * i failed to find any preliminary patches in the web, but if you have any -
>   can you please share it or just tell me where should i look for it?

There's no work in progress or planned to add patch ports upstream.
I'm not enthusiastic about doing it either as I would like to remove
uses of it rather than add more.

What is your use case?