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/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c88eb7b..209ad06 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4868,6 +4868,14 @@
T: git git://openrisc.net/~jonas/linux
F: arch/openrisc
+OPENVSWITCH
+M: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
+L: dev@openvswitch.org
+W: http://openvswitch.org
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch.git
+S: Maintained
+F: net/openvswitch/
+
OPL4 DRIVER
M: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
L: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers)