[ovs-dev] [netlink v4 27/52] datapath: Change userspace vport interface to use Netlink attributes.

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:49:39PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> One of the goals for Open vSwitch is to decouple kernel and userspace
>> software, so that either one can be upgraded or rolled back independent of
>> the other.  To do this in full generality, it must be possible to add new
>> features to the kernel vport layer without changing userspace software.
>> The customary way to do this in the Linux networking stack is to use
>> Netlink and in particular Netlink attributes.  This commit adopts that
>> model for the vport layer.  It does not yet actually start using the
>> Netlink socket layer, which will come later.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
>
> This patch had a small bug that I just discovered, here's a fix:

Looks good, thanks.