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

[Alexandru Ardelean]

@Ronaldo: there was a patch submission to add OVS support to netifd.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/21591

I was not accepted from the looks of it.

Regarding the discussion about the upgrade to 2.5.0.
Let's move it here:
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/2201



On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Ronaldo Afonso <
ronaldo at ronaldoafonso.com.br> wrote:

>   Hi all,
>
>   I'd like to take advantage of that thread and ask you guys if there is
> someone working on porting "netifd package" to support Open vSwitch.
>
>   Jeroen,
>
>   How are you planning to configure your /etc/config/network file in order
> for it to work with Open vSwitch?
>
>   Thanks in advance ...
>
>
> 2015-12-29 0:34 GMT-02:00 Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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