net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.

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.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c88eb7bb3a69..209ad0695ba2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4868,6 +4868,14 @@ S:	Maintained
 T:      git git://openrisc.net/~jonas/linux
 F:      arch/openrisc
 
+OPENVSWITCH
+M:      Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
+L:      dev@openvswitch.org
+W:      http://openvswitch.org
+T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch.git
+S:      Maintained
+F:      net/openvswitch/
+
 OPL4 DRIVER
 M:      Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
 L:      alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers)