[ovs-dev] [cfm 1/7] cfm: Migrate cfm/show unixctl command to CFM module.

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Fri May 20 21:18:58 UTC 2011


>> The main reason is that the 'name' parameter of a cfm object is not
>> necessarily fixed.  It can change arbitrarily at any time for any
>> reason by the client.   I think an obvious solution to this problem is
>> to require 'name' in cfm_create and remove it from the globally
>> visible struct cfm object.  Thus it won't be mutable.  I'll write up
>> an incremental.
>
> Seems reasonable to me.  Thanks.

Actually if you think it's fine how it is. I'll hold off on changing
it for now.  I've been thinking about how merging cfm_create and
cfm_configure so that it's not possible to have un-configured cfm
objects floating around.  I'll change it as part of that at the end of
the series.



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