[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] datapath-windows: Update netlink family IDs

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Aug 27 15:14:02 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:37:18PM -0700, Nithin Raju wrote:
> I didn't realize earlier while defining OvsDpInterfaceExt.h that
> there are special values defined in netlink-protocol.h for nlmsg_type.
> For Eg. NLMSG_ERROR is defined to be 2. In this patch, we update the
> values of the family IDs to not clash with the special defines.
> I'm using NLMSG_MIN_TYPE as a reference.
> 
> All this points to doing family ID lookup from the kernel rather than
> returning values from netlink-socket.c. We should move to that model
> after we get through the first round of netlink commands.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Raju <nithin at vmware.com>

Applied, thanks!



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