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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 2d998735c4d8..e07272d0bb2d 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ source "net/sched/Kconfig"
 source "net/dcb/Kconfig"
 source "net/dns_resolver/Kconfig"
 source "net/batman-adv/Kconfig"
+source "net/openvswitch/Kconfig"
 
 config RPS
         boolean