netdev - Re: [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch datapath

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Message-ID: <20100831081859.GA29281@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:18:59 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Cc:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	Ben Pfaff <blp@...ira.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch datapath

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:54:10PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> I'll let Herbert chime in, just reminder that was his thought earlier
> this month at LinuxCon.

Well my reasoning was that Open vSwitch isn't a hardware driver
per se, it's much closer to say the bridge module or a tunnel
implementation.

As such we should be very careful before committing to a user-space
interface that we may have to carry forward for years to come.

Cheers,
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