datapath: Enforce mutual exclusion between bridge and brcompat_mod.
authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:15:49 +0000 (11:15 -0800)
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:15:49 +0000 (11:15 -0800)
commita647150f01cf09eddc6d28bfec88b1bb8bab30df
treebfc6819153995b156f9c05c7229da36bf8ff0686
parentaee9464d36bfd326c3ddfd12e7fa732bf72557e9
datapath: Enforce mutual exclusion between bridge and brcompat_mod.

In kernels 2.6.36, Open vSwitch can (and does) safely coexist with the
Linux bridge module, but it does not make sense to load both bridge and
brcompat_mod at the same time.  Until now, nothing has prevented both from
loading; when they both load, confusion (at best) results.  This fixes
the problem by enforcing mutual exclusion.

Bug #9226.
Launchpad bug #917309.
Reported-by: Rogério Vinhal Nunes
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
datapath/brcompat.c
datapath/compat.h
datapath/vport-netdev.c