[ovs-dev] [PATCH] [RFC] [linux kernel patch] Add TCP encap_rcv hook

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Apr 5 16:45:30 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:08:42AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:10:52AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 02:15:00PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > This hook is based on a hook of the same name provided by UDP.  It provides
> > > a way for to receive packets that have a TCP header but are not in fact
> > > TCP.  It is intended to be used by an implementation of the STT tunneling
> > > protocol within Open vSwtich's datapath. A prototype of such an
> > > implementation has been made.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> > 
> > The comments still talk about UDP.
> 
> Ooops, here is a fresh version

There's a typo in the commit message: s/vSwtich/vSwitch/.

I'm not really reviewing the commit, by the way, just scanning it for
obvious mistakes.  I'll leave review to others.



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