[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] datapath: Renumber non-upstreamable interfaces.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Nov 7 19:01:19 UTC 2011


On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 12:34:25PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> The interfaces related to tunneling aren't finalized enough to be
> sent upstream but we also still want to retain them in the OVS
> repository.  Since userspace should be compatible with both versions
> of the kernel, this renumbers the tunnel interfaces to high numbers
> so that we can continue to add new interfaces without conflict.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

We have arrays sized on some of these values.  I have a series out
that uses policy parsing for key attributes in userspace, so this is
going to require changes in that series, and I was planning to do the
same thing in the kernel.  However I don't see a better way to do it
yet, so...
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>



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