[ovs-dev] [PATCH 09/11] odp-util: Pass down flow netlink attributes when translating masks.

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:13:23PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> Sometimes we need to look at flow fields to understand how to parse
>> an attribute. However, masks don't have this information - just the
>> mask on the field. We already use the translated flow structure for
>> this purpose but this isn't always enough since sometimes we actually
>> need the raw netlink information. Fortunately, that is also readily
>> available so this passes it down from the appropriate callers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>
> I am not looking forward to finding out when we need to use this
> information ;-)

Things get a bit more interesting in the next patch...