From: Ben Pfaff Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:08:15 +0000 (-0700) Subject: FAQ: Patch ports are not targeted for upstream. X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6302c64103fee63797dd10817d04fc7c1ddd23f7;p=openvswitch FAQ: Patch ports are not targeted for upstream. The previous text was ambiguous. Reported-by: Konstantin Khorenko CC: Jesse Gross Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff --- diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 1ed820c5..2c1a48cf 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ John Galgay john@galgay.net Kevin Mancuso kevin.mancuso@rackspace.com Kirill Kabardin Koichi Yagishita yagishita.koichi@jrc.co.jp +Konstantin Khorenko khorenko@openvz.org Krishna Miriyala krishna@nicira.com Luca Falavigna dktrkranz@debian.org Luiz Henrique Ozaki luiz.ozaki@gmail.com diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 4ad8c439..91f40070 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -143,12 +143,11 @@ A: The kernel module in upstream Linux 3.3 and later does not include kernel module from the Open vSwitch distribution instead of the upstream Linux kernel module. - - Tunnel and patch virtual ports, that is, interfaces with type - "gre", "ipsec_gre", "capwap", or "patch". It is possible to - create tunnels in Linux and attach them to Open vSwitch as - system devices. However, they cannot be dynamically created - through the OVSDB protocol or set the tunnel ids as a flow - action. + - Tunnel virtual ports, that is, interfaces with type "gre", + "ipsec_gre", "capwap". It is possible to create tunnels in + Linux and attach them to Open vSwitch as system devices. + However, they cannot be dynamically created through the OVSDB + protocol or set the tunnel ids as a flow action. Work is in progress in adding these features to the upstream Linux version of the Open vSwitch kernel module. For now, if @@ -156,6 +155,11 @@ A: The kernel module in upstream Linux 3.3 and later does not include vSwitch distribution instead of the upstream Linux kernel module. + - Patch virtual ports, that is, interfaces with type "patch". + You can use Linux "veth" devices as a substitute. + + We don't have any plans to add patch ports upstream. + Q: What features are not available when using the userspace datapath? A: Tunnel and patch virtual ports are not supported, as described in the