[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/6] dpif-netlink: break code to add compat and non-compat vports

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Jun 3 20:04:01 UTC 2016


On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 05:35:00PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> The vport type for adding tunnels is now compatibility code and any new features
> from tunnels must configure the tunnel as an interface using the tunnel metadata
> support.
> 
> In order to be able to add those tunnels, we need to add code to create the
> tunnels and add them as NETDEV vports. And when there is no support to create
> them, we need to use the compatibility code and add them as tunnel vports.
> 
> When removing those tunnels, we need to remove the interfaces as well, and
> detecting the right type might be important, at least to distinguish the tunnel
> vports that we should remove and the interfaces that we shouldn't.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at redhat.com>

This does not seem to actually break anything, so maybe the title should
say something like "break out" or "factor out".



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