[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4 02/10] ofp-actions: allow ofpacts_to_openflow11_{actions, instructions} return error

Isaku Yamahata yamahata at valinux.co.jp
Wed Aug 15 02:44:20 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:46:05AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:24:07AM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > When OF1.2+ only actions are introduced,
> > ofpacts_put_openflow11_{actions, instructions}() will be unable to handle all
> > ofp-actions. For such cases, allow it return error.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata at valinux.co.jp>
> 
> Again, I'd prefer to make it possible.
> 
> By the way, for what actions do you think that this would be
> necessary, in any case?  I think that it is much simpler to implement
> OpenFlow 1.2 actions in OF1.1 than to implement OF1.1-in-OF1.0,
> because OF1.1 and OF1.2 use the same model for instructions and
> actions and because OF1.2 does not reuse OF1.1 action numbers for
> different purposes.

I have OF1.3 in mind. e.g. OF1.3 introduced meter instruction.
-- 
yamahata



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