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authorChristopher Walker <kris240376@gmail.com>2015-05-08 22:52:46 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-05-08 22:52:46 +0700
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network/openvswitch: Updated for version 2.3.1.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ is the default switch in the Xen Cloud Platform and also supports Xen,
XenServer, KVM, and VirtualBox. The bulk of the code is written in
platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments.
-This package will build kernel modules that will be used as replacements
-for the bridge modules included with the stock Linux kernel. Open
-vSwitch also includes a kernel module for backwards compatibility if you wish
-to use the standard Linux bridge utils to manage it.
+NOTE: In order to remain compatible with newer versions of Slackware this
+ build script will check for the existence of the Slackware provided
+ openvswitch.ko kernel module. If the kernel module already exists
+ on the machine then the script will skip installation of the module
+ file. Open vSwitch utilities are always installed.