[ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC] ofproto: Allow multiple array elements in PORT_DESC request body

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Thu Dec 12 02:32:17 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 05:34:28PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 09:36:03AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > This change is also needed for several other stats request messages.
> > I have posted this as an RFC before proceeding with updating
> 
> What's the rationale for the change?  As far as I can tell, OpenFlow
> only allows a single port in an OFPST_PORT_REQUEST.

Indeed, I was confused!

I have been looking at implementing multi-part requests and for some reason
I assumed they were based on requests with multiple array elements. I now
see that is not true in the general case..



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