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/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.h b/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Nicira Networks.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+ * 02110-1301, USA
+ */
+
+#ifndef VPORT_NETDEV_H
+#define VPORT_NETDEV_H 1
+
+#include <linux/netdevice.h>
+
+#include "vport.h"
+
+struct vport *ovs_netdev_get_vport(struct net_device *dev);
+
+struct netdev_vport {
+	struct net_device *dev;
+};
+
+static inline struct netdev_vport *
+netdev_vport_priv(const struct vport *vport)
+{
+	return vport_priv(vport);
+}
+
+const char *ovs_netdev_get_name(const struct vport *);
+const char *ovs_netdev_get_config(const struct vport *);
+int ovs_netdev_get_ifindex(const struct vport *);
+
+#endif /* vport_netdev.h */