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diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index acefed223..c3e10fb71 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -1386,6 +1386,16 @@
<dt><code>tap</code></dt>
<dd>A TUN/TAP device managed by Open vSwitch.</dd>
+ <dt><code>geneve</code></dt>
+ <dd>
+ An Ethernet over Geneve (<code>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00</code>)
+ IPv4 tunnel.
+
+ Geneve supports options as a means to transport additional metadata,
+ however, currently only the 24-bit VNI is supported. This is planned
+ to be extended in the future.
+ </dd>
+
<dt><code>gre</code></dt>
<dd>
An Ethernet over RFC 2890 Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4
@@ -1458,8 +1468,9 @@
<group title="Tunnel Options">
<p>
These options apply to interfaces with <ref column="type"/> of
- <code>gre</code>, <code>ipsec_gre</code>, <code>gre64</code>,
- <code>ipsec_gre64</code>, <code>vxlan</code>, and <code>lisp</code>.
+ <code>geneve</code>, <code>gre</code>, <code>ipsec_gre</code>,
+ <code>gre64</code>, <code>ipsec_gre64</code>, <code>vxlan</code>,
+ and <code>lisp</code>.
</p>
<p>