Subject: Re: OVS Kernel Datapath development

From: Lori Jakab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:02:18 +0200

On 12/08/2014 06:47 AM, 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.

Patch series that have previous revisions already reviewed with the old
process should now switch to the new process?  Or does the change apply
only to new patch series?

-Lori

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Pravin.
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