Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: adding plugin infrastructre

2015-06-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 06:01:42PM +, Gray, Mark D wrote: > As a general comment, why didn’t you pluginize (if that is a word) the > current set of netdevs and ofprotos in this patch? That's the direction that I think we'd have to go for this kind of thing to be maintainable. If the community

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: adding plugin infrastructre

2015-06-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 01:15:21AM -0700, michael.zay...@hp.com wrote: > Per this patch ovs-vswitchd searches for shared objects, with > a certain set of exposed routines, in a specific configurable path. > Once found, all compatible plugins are loaded and their routines are > called at appropri

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: adding plugin infrastructre

2015-06-11 Thread Zayats, Michael
> -Original Message- > From: Gray, Mark D [mailto:mark.d.g...@intel.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 11:02 AM > To: Zayats, Michael; dev@openvswitch.org > Subject: RE: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: adding plugin infrastructre > > > > > Per this patch ov

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: adding plugin infrastructre

2015-06-11 Thread Gray, Mark D
> > Per this patch ovs-vswitchd searches for shared objects, with > a certain set of exposed routines, in a specific configurable path. > Once found, all compatible plugins are loaded and their routines are > called at appropriate points of the daemon execution. > Personally, I like this functio

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: adding plugin infrastructre

2015-06-10 Thread michael . zayats
Per this patch ovs-vswitchd searches for shared objects, with a certain set of exposed routines, in a specific configurable path. Once found, all compatible plugins are loaded and their routines are called at appropriate points of the daemon execution. Currently, the main purpose is to allow in