Re: [ovs-dev] Looking for help to get into OVS development !!

2012-03-29 Thread hitesh wadekar
Thanks Justin and Ethan, for your assistance !!! I will look into this. I am currently reading porting, design and other documents. If I come across any difficulties I will mail you. Thanks again. Looking forward to work with you for OVS (openflow). - Hitesh On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:48 AM,

Re: [ovs-dev] Looking for help to get into OVS development !!

2012-03-28 Thread Justin Pettit
On Mar 28, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Ethan Jackson wrote: >> Could you share with us how you use to debug it? a small example would be >> sufficient. > > I don't have any particular insight in this area beyond trying it. If > it doesn't work, think about it and figure out why. It's just a > standard C

Re: [ovs-dev] Looking for help to get into OVS development !!

2012-03-28 Thread Ethan Jackson
> Could you share with us how you use to debug it? a small example would be > sufficient. I don't have any particular insight in this area beyond trying it. If it doesn't work, think about it and figure out why. It's just a standard C program, so GDB and what-not works. There aren't really any

Re: [ovs-dev] Looking for help to get into OVS development !!

2012-03-28 Thread hitesh wadekar
Thanks Ethan, for such a quick reply. Could you share with us how you use to debug it? a small example would be sufficient. As it has 2 modules, 1 User (ovs-vswitchd, ofproto ..) 2. Kernel (datapath). If I changed some code in datapath and I want to see its reflection on user level. what will be

Re: [ovs-dev] Looking for help to get into OVS development !!

2012-03-28 Thread Ethan Jackson
I would recommend doing the following in order: 1) Use git to clone the source code available at openvswitch.org 2) Read the available documentation. In particular read the README, DESIGN, INSTALL.Linux, CodyingStyle, and SubmittingPatches files. 3) Following the instructions to build and install

Re: [ovs-dev] Looking for help to get into OVS development !!

2012-03-28 Thread Chandra Sekhar
Hi Everyone, I am Chandra, and looking to contribute as well. Perhaps we can work together in the initial phase until we ramp up. Could someone please give us some pointers on how to start. Any pointers/blogs would be of good help. Thanks Chandra On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:12 AM, hitesh wadekar

[ovs-dev] Looking for help to get into OVS development !!

2012-03-28 Thread hitesh wadekar
Hello All, I am Hitesh Wadekar. I am looking forward to contribute to this http://openvswitch.org/development/openflow-1-x-plan/ . I am confused where to start. It will be great for me, If someone can share the process for creating development envionment for OVS as well as what debugging tool sh