On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:32 AM, James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi OpenvSwitch Devs > > Ubuntu Saucy is about to bump kernel version from 3.9 to 3.10; I started > looking at the impact of this on ovs but swiftly went down the rabbit hole > of not really understanding how the introduction of 802.1ad support in this > kernel version would impact on the compat layer of ovs; specifically the > following kernel commits: > > net: vlan: rename NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_* feature flags to NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_* > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f646968f8f7c624587de729115d802372b9063dd > > net: vlan: add 802.1ad support > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8ad227ff89a7e6f05d07cd0acfd95ed3a24450ca > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ada8db38a44654446fe35ceb20a1972220e0f69 > > net: vlan: add protocol argument to packet tagging functions > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=86a9bad3ab6b6f858fd4443b48738cabbb6d094c > > I was unsure as to whether this was suitable for inclusion in > datapath/compat/* or whether the datapath module itself should have > conditional code to deal with >= 3.10.0.
The compat directory is definitely the preferable location in general. Are the specific areas/functions that you were thinking about that might be a problem? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
