[ovs-dev] [PATCH 4/4] vswitchd: Remove documentation of xs-network-names.
Jeremy Stribling
strib at nicira.com
Sat Mar 13 01:13:28 UTC 2010
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:20:47PM -0800, Jeremy Stribling wrote:
>
>> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>> The xs-network-names external_id is no longer used or populated, so remove
>>> its documentation.
>>>
>> Is this a limitation of new XenServer systems? DVS currently uses
>> the xs-network-names field on a bridge. I'm not sure what it's used
>> for, but the current code definitely looks at it. Is it absolutely
>> necessary to remove support for it?
>>
>
> We couldn't come up with a reasonable way to preserve support for it.
> There was some discussion of this on ovs-dev a few weeks ago (Justin and
> Ian Campbell and I were involved).
>
> As I understand it DVS needs to talk to XAPI anyhow, or at least it will
> need to talk to it (see bug #2097 and NIC-47), so it seems to me that
> DVS could just ask XAPI what name corresponds to a given UUID. I know
> that's more work on the DVS end, but...
>
Thanks for explaining. But: d'oh. I'm completely wrong. NOX only
looks at xs-network-uuids. Sorry for raising alarms for no reason.
Jeremy
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