[ovs-dev] [netlink v3 09/16] datapath: Make it possible to query vports by name regardless of datapath.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Mon Jan 10 18:27:18 UTC 2011


On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> Until now it has only been possible to query a vport if you know what
> datapath it is on.  This doesn't really make sense, so this commit removes
> that restriction.  It is a little bigger than one might naturally expect
> because locking changes are required.
>
> This also allows us to get rid of the ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO kluge that has
> bothered me for a long time.  The next commit does that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>




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