On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Thomas Graf <tg...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Due to the missing register rx_handler API in the kernel RHEL6 is
> based on, the datapath currently falls back to using the bridging
> hook with the consequence that bridging and OVS cannot be used in
> parallel on any RHEL6 release.
>
> For this purpose, >=RHEL6.4 releases provide a special rx frame hook
> to be used by OVS. It captures frames at the same location in the
> stack as the rx_handler would do in more recent kernel releases. In
> order to store the vport pointer, the net_device's ax25_ptr field is
> utilized under the assumption that an AX25 device will never be
> attached to an OVS bridge.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com>
> (cherry picked from commit f285d3e715512571c4b2f92a4d1c65022bbcc9d5)
>
> Conflicts:
>         datapath/vport-netdev.c

Both patches applied. I also applied them to branch-1.10.
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