[ovs-dev] [PATCH 01/31] userspace: Add OXM field MFF_PACKET_TYPE

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:16:15AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:
> 
> > From: Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich at ericsson.com>
> >
> > Allow packet type namespace OFPHTN_ETHERTYPE as alternative pre-requisite
> > for matching L3 protocols (MPLS, IP, IPv6, ARP etc).
> >
> > Change the meta-flow definition of packet_type field to use the new
> > custom format MFS_PACKET_TYPE representing "(NS,NS_TYPE)".
> >
> > Parsing routine for MFS_PACKET_TYPE added to meta-flow.c. Formatting
> > routine for field packet_type extracted from match_format() and moved to
> > flow.c to be used from meta-flow.c for formatting MFS_PACKET_TYPE.
> >
> > Updated the ovs-fields man page source meta-flow.xml with documentation
> > for packet-type-aware bridges and added documentation for field packet_type.
> >
> > Added packet_type to the matching properties in tests/ofproto.at. Should be
> > removed later, when packet_type_aware bridge attribute will be introduced.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich at ericsson.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> 
> Does this need a co-authored by?  If not, there's probably a useful
> change from the checkpatch side to match From: tags with Signed-off-by:
> tags (for these delivery cases to squelch the error message).

This doesn't need a co-authored-by because I'm merely passing along a
patch authored by someone else.