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

loy wolfe loywolfe at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 09:47:23 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Mathieu Rohon <mathieu.rohon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
It's better to move all MD for none built-in backend out of tree,
maintaining these drivers shouldn't be the responsibility of community. Not
only MD, but also plugin, agent should all obey this rule


>
> [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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