[ovs-dev] [flow-compat 0/7] userspace support for kernel flow evolution

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sat Nov 5 01:40:49 UTC 2011


I was planning on looking at it.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> I was hoping that you and Jesse could work out who has precedence.
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 04:56:14PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
>> Who is the appropriate person to review this?  If it's me, how urgent is it?
>>
>> Ethan
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 16:44, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 04:43:12PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> >> The Netlink flow key attribute structure is designed to allow the
>> >> kernel to add support for new protocols over time without breaking
>> >> userspace applications, but the userspace side of this had not been
>> >> implemented. ?This series implements it.
>> >>
>> >> I already have some proposed changes out that would specify rules for
>> >> changing the kernel flow key format over time:
>> >> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-November/012588.html. ?Those
>> >> rules would change the existing kernel flow key format a bit. ?This commit
>> >> doesn't depend on or implement those changes.
>> >
>> > Also, I tested an earlier form of this series, but I haven't re-tested
>> > the final version that I posted. ?Obviously that would be necessary
>> > before I commit it.
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