net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.

[karo-tx-linux.git] / net / openvswitch / Kconfig

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+#
+# Open vSwitch
+#
+
+config OPENVSWITCH
+       tristate "Open vSwitch"
+       ---help---
+         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.
+
+         To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
+         called openvswitch.
+
+         If unsure, say N.