[ovs-dev] [PATCH 4/4] Definitions for Open Flow 1.2

[Simon Horman]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:12:21PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Thanks Simon.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:04:30AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:34:53PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > I don't think that the ofp12_match structure will really be useful in
> > > this form.  If we just defined an "ofp_match_header" that just
> > > contains length and type, we could probably use that somewhere.
> > 
> > That sounds reasonable. Would it be ofp11_match_header or would
> > it also cover Open Flow 1.0?
> 
> It would be ofp11_match_header because OpenFlow 1.0 didn't have a
> uniform header for matches.
> 
> To be sure, the header is only two 16-bit bits (type and length).  It
> may or may not pay off to have these in a struct; we'll see.

I understand; we'll see.