On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > I am not sure that OVS-created tap devices are that useful anyway. I've > thought for some time of removing them from OVS entirely. But it seems > that they are likely to be even less useful on netbsd. Should we simply > not support them there? > > (OVS-created tap devices are distinct from tap devices created other > ways, which at least on Linux can be added to an OVS bridge in the usual > way and don't require any special support. Thus, removing this feature > would not keep OVS from working with tap devices.)
I agree that tap devices as independent entities are useless in OVS. However, they are pretty useful as an implementation of internal ports in the userspace datapath. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
