[ovs-dev] [PATCH] netlink-socket: Do not assign netlink sequence number if it was already assigned when sending a message.

[Atzm Watanabe]

At Wed, 4 Jul 2012 23:01:40 -0700,
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:59:15PM +0900, Atzm Watanabe wrote:
> > Overwriting sequence number breaks replies (e.g. to brcompat).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Atzm Watanabe <atzm at stratosphere.co.jp>
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  I don't really like how it treats zero as a magic
> number (as far as I know, zero isn't special for nlmsg_seq), and how if
> some code sent the same ofpbuf twice it would use the same nlmsg_seq
> each time, so I sent out an alternative patch:
>         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-July/018669.html
> But, I haven't tested it yet.  Does it work for you?

Thank you for your quick reply and work.
I've tested your patch and it works for me.

Regards,

Atzm.