[ovs-dev] [PATCH 14/22] ofp-util: Allow out-of-range indexes in ofputil_decode_geneve_table_reply().

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sun Jul 19 23:18:36 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> Otherwise, if some future version of OVS supports more Geneve options than
> the current version, and any of these extras are in use, then one would be
> unable to dump them with "ovs-ofctl dump-geneve-map", and any other
> OVS-based software that wants to dump the Geneve map to work with the
> existing options (i.e. ovn-controller) would fail entirely, instead of
> being able to work with at least a subset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>



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