[ovs-dev] [of1.2 6/9] ovs-ofctl: Reject impossible protocols configurations at startup.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:09:00PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:06:53PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > The -O and -F options interact, so that it's possible to select only
> > flow formats that are not supported on a given OpenFlow version.  It seems
> > best to report these problems up front rather than failing in a more
> > mysterious way later.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> 
> Wow, that rather tedious.
> 
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>

Yeah, it's not great.  But I don't think that it will be a problem most
of the time.  For now, the most likely command-line option is to enable
versions other than 1.0 with -O, which won't cause a problem.