[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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