[openstack-dev] [neutron][ml2] Mech driver as out-of-tree add-on

Mathieu Rohon mathieu.rohon at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 08:22:25 UTC 2014


Hi,

I would like to add that it would be harder for the community to help
maintaining drivers.
such a work [1] wouldn't have occured with an out of tree ODL driver.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/96459/

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Robert Kukura <kukura at noironetworks.com> wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind is that the ML2 driver API does sometimes change,
> requiring updates to drivers. Drivers that are in-tree get updated along
> with the driver API change. Drivers that are out-of-tree must be updated by
> the owner.
>
> -Bob
>
>
> On 8/13/14, 6:59 AM, ZZelle wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> The important thing to understand is how to integrate with neutron through
> stevedore/entrypoints:
>
> https://github.com/dave-tucker/odl-neutron-drivers/blob/master/setup.cfg#L32-L34
>
>
> Cedric
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Dave Tucker <dave at dtucker.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I've been working on this for OpenDaylight
>> https://github.com/dave-tucker/odl-neutron-drivers
>>
>> This seems to work for me (tested Devstack w/ML2) but YMMV.
>>
>> -- Dave
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