[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch compatibility with v3.10

Daviey Walker dave.walker at canonical.com
Wed Jul 31 19:30:45 UTC 2013


On 31 July 2013 20:16, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org> wrote:
>> [Bounced on the first attempt, now subscribed to the list]
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> We were looking to use openvswitch for one of our projects but after
>> some investigation,
>> it looks as if this is only supported for versions upto v3.8.. When I
>> tried to compile it
>> forcefully for 3.10 by updating version information in
>> datapath/datapath.c, I got around
>> incompatibility issues within header files present in ovs and kernel,
>> ex: include/net/gre.h..
>>
>> Are there any plans or work in progress for the same.
>
> There was a thread about working on it but no patches as of yet:
> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2013-June/028822.html
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Hi,

James started on an initial compat patch for 3.10.  It does not
support 802.1ad which was introduced in 3.10.
http://people.canonical.com/~davewalker/0004-datapath-Fixup-compatibility-with-linux-3.10.patch

HTH

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Kind Regards,

Dave Walker <Dave.Walker at canonical.com>
Engineering Manager,
Ubuntu Server



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