[ovs-dev] [RFC 0/2] Rename libopenvswitch to include MAJOR.MINOR number.

Joe Stringer joe at ovn.org
Wed May 17 23:33:14 UTC 2017


On 4 May 2017 at 13:14, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 04:08:01PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
>> I have recently been looking into backporting a fix for variable-length
>> metadata fields from master to branch-2.7. Unfortunately, the fix makes several
>> changes to libopenvswitch APIs, in particular some files under
>> include/openvswitch/*.h and lib/*.h. From the perspective of the
>> openvswitch-dev packages, these are visible in
>> /usr/include/openvswitch/{,lib/}*.h.
>>
>> This is the series:
>> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-March/329811.html
>
> Thanks for working on this.
>
> I don't know of a big downside to this approach, and it seems like it
> has valuable upsides.
>
> For both:
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

Thanks for the feedback Aaron and Ben, applied to master. I'll prepare
it for branch-2.7 as well.


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