[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath-windows: Update port property

Nithin Raju nithin at vmware.com
Wed Nov 5 22:15:15 UTC 2014


On Nov 5, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Eitan Eliahu <eliahue at vmware.com>
 wrote:
> Hi Nithin,
> Actually ovsState will get updated from portParam->PortState in OvsInitVportWithPortParam()  so this should not be an issue.
> But, there may be an issue with the nic parameters stored in the voprt.
> Even when the documentation reads that only "currently" the port friendly name could get updated I would rather not count on it.
> I will check into this issue.

Thanks Eitan. Like you say, we don't want to loose any NIC parameters that we previously received in call to HvCreateNic().

We could possibly only copy the 'friendly name' from port params and leave the rest as it is, instead of doing a HvDeletePort() and HvCreatePort().

Thanks,
-- Nithin




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