[Bug 808224] Re: ovs-brcompatd not built

[Ben Pfaff]

> @Ben: Can you comment on why it's use is discouraged?

A few reasons:
* Its original goal was to support XAPI on Citrix XenServer, in versions of XenServer before OVS was integrated.  We implemented exactly the feature set required for that.  There could easily be important omissions.
* Unlike most of the rest of OVS, we don't test it here at Nicira anymore, because we don't need it anymore for XenServer support.
* We're working to upstream the OVS kernel module but there's no way that the brcompatd module would ever get accepted upstream.
* Using OVS advanced features requires using ovs-vsctl instead of brctl anyway (and if you don't want to use OVS advanced features why bother switching from the bridge?).

> Also, do you plan to make a binary package for it in Debian, if we are
to add it - i'd rather avoid diverging.

It's written on my whiteboard as a to-do item but it's kind of a low
priority.   If you get around to it before me I'll take your patch.

Thanks,

Ben.

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