net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.
The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.
See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
diff --git a/net/Makefile b/net/Makefile
index acdde49..ad432fa 100644
--- a/net/Makefile
+++ b/net/Makefile
@@ -69,3 +69,4 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_CEPH_LIB) += ceph/
obj-$(CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV) += batman-adv/
obj-$(CONFIG_NFC) += nfc/
+obj-$(CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH) += openvswitch/