[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] vswitchd: Add OVS version to database, give system info its own columns.

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Mon Dec 27 18:14:57 UTC 2010


On Dec 22, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> +    <group title="Version Reporting">
> +      <p>
> +	These columns report the types and versions of the hardware and
> +	software running Open vSwitch.  We recommend in general that software
> +	should test whether specific features are supported instead of relying
> +	on version number checks.  These values are primarily intended for
> +	reporting to human administrators.
> +      </p>
> +
> +	The Open vSwitch version number, e.g. <code>1.1.0pre2</code>.  The Open
> +	vSwitch build number, if any, is not included.
> +      </column>

I don't think there's an opening "column" tag for "ovs_version".

> +      <column name="system_version">
> +        <p>
> +	  The version of the system identified by <ref column="system_type"/>,
> +	  e.g. <code>5.6.0</code> on XenServer 5.6.0.

I know you just moved this from an existing description, but I think we may want to correct the example.  For XenServer 5.6.0, I think it would be "5.6.0-31188", since we actually include the build number in our integration scripts.

--Justin






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