On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote:
> On 18 July 2016 at 14:42, pravin shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote:
>>> On 17 July 2016 at 19:24, Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> wrote:
>>>> This series contains patches to advance kernel datapath
>>>> support for kernel upto 4.6.
>>>
>>> When I try to load the kernel module on Ubuntu's kernel-4.4, I get
>>> complaints about GRE:
>>>
>>> [  784.836361] openvswitch: Open vSwitch switching datapath 2.5.90
>>> [  784.836590] openvswitch: LISP tunneling driver
>>> [  784.836592] rpl_gre_cisco_register: cannot register gre_cisco
>>> protocol handler
>>> [  784.836593] openvswitch: rpl_ipgre_init: can't add protocol
>>>
>>> xenial-test ovs # uname -a
>>> Linux xenial-test 4.4.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:07:12
>>> UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Can you check if you have loaded ip_gre module?
>
> Ah, yes it turns out it was loaded.
>
> In the kernel module testsuite, we create linux gre devices to
> communicate with OVS and do basic sanity tests for gre tunnels. When
> we do "ip link add ... type gretap ...", this automatically loads
> ip_gre module. These seem to successfully co-exist previously, has
> this changed with this patch series or some recent kernel work?
>
> I also note that the INSTALL.md mentions that it must not be loaded on
> kernel <3.11; if this has changed, then maybe the documentation needs
> updating too.

I also noticed it recently. I want to investigate it too. I will let you know.
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