[OpenWrt-Devel] Fwd: OpenVSwitch 2.5.0 for Linux kernel 4.3

[Yousong Zhou]

On 29 December 2015 at 04:33, Jeroen van Bemmel <jvb127 at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> For a Xiaomi Mini WiFi router I wanted to try OpenVSwitch, but the
> 2.4.0 version available in the feeds only supports Linux kernels up to
> 4.1. The ramips target uses kernel 4.3, and downgrading to 4.1 didn't work
> for me.
>
> OpenVSwitch 2.5.0 does support kernel 4.3, so I made some
> modifications to the package Makefile to build the newer version. Most
> of the patches are no longer needed, and with some minor patch the
> code builds now
> ( though I haven't tested it on the target )
>
> Is anyone else interested in these changes, and if so what would be
> the proper way to add a second version of the existing package ( with
> its own source code URL + patches )? Would it be a delta on the
> existing package, or a new "openvswitch-2.5.0" package?
>

I think we can just move to 2.5.0.  Use the newest version or the LTS
version (2.3.2).

Open vSwitch is provided through the packages feed, so opening
issue/pr there should be better.

                yousong

> Thanks,
> Jeroen van Bemmel
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