[ovs-discuss] Linking of OFPROTO and NETDEV libraries to OVS

[Aravind Prasad]

Hi Ben,

> OVS doesn't support that.

Thanks a lot for the quick response and support.

Thanks,
Aravind Prasad S

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:06:59AM +0530, Aravind Prasad wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > > I don't understand the question.  These are always linked together.
> >
> > I want to write a new ofproto provider and netdev provider and have them
> as
> > dynamic libraries. The requirement is to have the implementation of the
> > provider Apis  contained in a separate dynamic library and not modify ovs
> > code base by adding private patches to register providers.
> > Hence, with this, I can download the OVS-Package, replace the dynamic
> > library for registering providers and start using OVS without touching
> the
> > OVS code base.
> >
> > Is the above possible today? Thanks for the response and support.
>
> OVS doesn't support that.
>
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