[ovs-dev] [PATCH 18/19] actions: Allow secondary decoding of a flow

[Simon Horman]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 01:43:40PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:35:24AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Actions may provide information to allow further decoding of
> > a flow.
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > In the case of MPLS, L3 and L4 information may not initially be decoded
> > from the frame as the ethernet type of the frame is an MPLS type and no
> > information is known about the type of the inner frame.
> > 
> > However, the type of the inner frame may be provided by an mpls_pop action
> > in which case L3 and L4 information may be decoded providing a finer
> > grained match than is otherwise possible.
> > 
> > ovs-vswtichd: actions_allow_l3_extraction()
> 
> This patch lacks a Signed-off-by:, and the last line of the commit
> messages looks like a cut-and-paste error.

Sorry about that, I'll clean the commit message up.