[ovs-dev] [cfm 4/6] packets: Create new compose_ccm() function.

[Ben Pfaff]

The purpose of the packets library is not carved in stone, but I've
been regarding it mainly as a grab bag for stuff that doesn't have a
clear place elsewhere in the tree.  "benign" packets fall into that
category I think, but for LACP and CCM it seems less clear--we have
LACP and CFM files.  Anything that is esoteric and protocol specific
would seem well suited to go into protocol-specific .c and .h files
when we already have them.  Not sure why we'd banish it to some
generic place.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:29:54AM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> I guess I'm not fully understanding the purpose of the packets
> library.  The definition of ccm messages is in its header file.  It
> would seem natural to me for composition and parsing to be there as
> well.  Furthermore, this is how it's done for lacp and "benign"
> packets.  It seems like a good place to put esoteric protocol specific
> logic that is only interesting in creating the packets freeing up the
> caller to deal with the logic of what actually belongs in there.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:32:56PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> >> This cleans up the CFM library a bit by pushing ccm composition
> >> details into the packets library.
> >
> > I don't yet see the benefit to moving composing (patch 4) and parsing
> > (patch 5) CCM packets from cfm into packets. ?Can you explain?
> >