On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:57:29AM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:00:25AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> Since a version of Open vSwitch has been accepted for inclusion in > >> mainline Linux 3.3, perhaps it could be included in Debian kernel > >> packages starting with Linux 3.2 and then this binary package could be > >> removed. However I don't know whether the mainline version is fully- > >> featured. > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > the mainline version is fully featured and I envisage that the > > openvswitch-datapath package can be removed from the archive at some point. > > I would value your input on how that might be best achieved. > > The upstream version is actually not quite fully featured. There is > currently no support for tunneling upstream because we wanted to spent > some time thinking about the interfaces before finalizing them. We > did quite a bit of this for the main components of Open vSwitch and > thought it was better to get that upstream first since it was ready > and more or less independent. > > The other piece that is not upstream is support for bridge > compatibility (although the bulk of this is in a separate module, it > requires some hooks into the main one). We hope that this continues > to become less necessary over time and aren't planning to propose that > for upstream Linux.
I stand corrected. > As Ben mentioned, the best solution for now to just upload OVS 1.3. Sure, will do. But it may not be until the end of the week. > > As for the compile problem below, this is intended by upstream, > > though perhaps isn't appropriate for Debian. I'll take guidance > > on that issue from upstream. > > The #error message is only intended to make the source of the problem > obvious to users who are compiling the module out-of-tree. > Compilation would have failed anyways due to changes in the kernel > headers. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
