[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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