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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs-jkUAjuhPggJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:12:15 -0400
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On 08/26/14 11:01, Scott Feldman wrote:
>

>
> I don=92t see it that way.  I believe sw_flow can be the intermediary rep=
resentation to span flow-based and non-flow-based HW,
> and from flow-based world and traditional l2/l3 world.
>
>

Is there more magic to this than what Thomas just presented in this thread?

cheers,
jamal