On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:38 AM, James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 22/08/13 17:19, Jesse Gross wrote: >>>> Would the picks above be accepted onto the 1.11 branch? >> I would be very hesitant to put these on branch-1.11. We're very >> close to release there and this is major code restructuring. If you >> really want to go down this path, then I think it would be better >> to just pick up the kernel code in master since it's basically the >> same thing and there will be a lower chance of missing something. >> However, I'm sure that there is a much more minimal change that >> would allow 1.11 to support the newer kernels and that would seem >> the right thing to do. > > Fair enough - the deltas for 3.9 and 3.10 support are quite small; I > was struggling with the changes in the 3.11 kernel in the way gre is > handled; I think the gre module in the kernel is registering as the > protocol handler before openvswitch, which then fails to register is > own handler - but I could be wrong!
What you're describing is possible and it's true that when OVS directly has the ability to use the in-kernel GRE support it's no longer an issue. However, the same scenario can also happen on all earlier kernels and I don't think it should be any worse with these changes than before. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
