[ovs-discuss] about brcompat in kernel-3.3
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Thu May 10 19:37:01 UTC 2012
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:53:23PM +0800, billyway wrote:
> I was told that the openvswitch cant be loaded with bridge,
That is correct for old kernels, but it is not true with recent
kernels.
> but when I am using a Fedora 17 alpha host with kernel-3.3, the
> openvswitch.ko can be loaded and work while bridge.ko is loaded !!
Yes.
> is that expected result in kernel-3.3 ?
Yes.
> BTW, there's not brcompat.ko in kernel-3.3 ?
Right. If you want brcompat (I don't recommend it) you will need to
build the out-of-tree OVS kernel modules.
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