[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Correct Netronome Vendor Id

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Sep 30 05:57:50 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:52:58AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> Due to an error on my part the Netronome vendor Id is incorrect:
> the last digit should be 'D' rather than '0' as per the
> Netronome IEEE OUI.

Huh.  I guess the difference between Nortel and Netronome is 13.

> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> * Compile tested only
> 
> * This problem is also present in branch-2.4
> 
> * Regarding backwards compatibility.
> 
>   My understanding is that the Netronome Vendor Id is only used by the
>   NTR (Netronome) selection method extension and that feature is not widely
>   used.  Thus I have skipped on making this change backwards compatible.
> 
>   If backwards compatibility is desired I believe it can
>   be achieved by having parse_ofp15_group_prop_exp() accept
>   both the correct new and incorrect old value.

It looks really easy to add that, would you mind taking care of it?



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