On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 10:56:24AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > The <linux/openvswitch.h> header is confusing from userspace, because it > > needs to be included on all our platforms yet it has to match upstream > > Linux with all of the baggage that carries. This series tries to improve > > on the situation. > > I'm happy enough with this approach for the time being. (I suspect > that if we ever have really native support on other platforms, such as > the FreeBSD kernel, then they would want us to use their preferred > communication mechanism as Linux would in the reverse situation. We > can address that if it becomes a problem in the future though.)
I agree. Open vSwitch wants an extensible communication protocol. Windows doesn't appear to have a native one. I don't know about FreeBSD, but if does then fitting OVS into that might make sense. > Acked-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> Thanks. > The only minor suggestion that I have is make the notice about > odp-netlink.h being a generated file more prominent. On my editor it > blends in with the copyright message so some extra blank lines in > between the two would likely help somewhat. I added three blank lines. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
