[ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev: Prevent using reserved names

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu May 16 21:04:38 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 01:59:51PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Alex Wang <alexw at nicira.com> wrote:
> > This commit adds a function to lib/netdev.c to check that the interface name
> > is not the same as any of the registered vport providers' dpif_port name
> > (e.g. gre_system) or the datapath's internal port name (e.g. ovs-system).
> >
> > Bug #15077
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw at nicira.com>
> 
> One very small comment: can you remove the "XXX" comment block at the
> top of ofproto/tunnel.c? That refers to this and is the last remaining
> piece of outstanding work from flow-based tunneling.

Thanks for pointing that out.  I folded that in as I committed Alex's
patch.



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