netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] OVS Kernel Datapath development

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Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2014 10:30:36 -0800
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...ronetworks.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS Kernel Datapath development

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...ronetworks.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/14 at 08:47pm, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> Since the beginning OVS kernel datapath development is primarily done
>> on external OVS repo. Now we have mostly synced upstream and external
>> OVS. So we have decided to change this process. New process is as
>> follows.
>>
>> 1. OVS feature development that involves kernel datapath should be
>> done on net-next tree datapath.
>> 2. Such feature patch series should be posted on netdev and ovs-dev
>> mailing list.
>> 3. Once review is done for entire series, kernel and OVS userspace
>> patches will be merged in respective repo.
>> 4. After the merge developer is suppose to send patches for external
>> kernel datapath along with old kernel compatibility code. So that we
>> can keep external datapath insync.
>
> +1
>
> Just to be clear, by respective repo do you mean net-next/net or will
> you maintain a net-next branch on git.kernel.org and continue doing
> pull requests?

OVS patches will directly go to net-next/net tree. I am not planning
on maintaining any tree on git.kernel.org.
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