[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] updated selinux policy for Open vSwitch

[Alin Serdean]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Pettit [mailto:jpettit at ovn.org]
> Sent: Saturday, September 2, 2017 5:56 AM
> To: Alin Serdean <aserdean at cloudbasesolutions.com>
> Cc: Ansis Atteka <ansisatteka at gmail.com>; Aaron Conole
> <aconole at redhat.com>; <dev at openvswitch.org> <dev at openvswitch.org>;
> Ansis Atteka <aatteka at ovn.org>; Jean Hsiao <jhsiao at redhat.com>; Flavio
> Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] updated selinux policy for Open vSwitch
> 
> 
> > On Sep 1, 2017, at 6:30 PM, Alin Serdean
> <aserdean at cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > [Alin Serdean] It would be nice, but not mandatory in my opinion. Most of
> the Windows users will search for a MSI rather than compiling from source.
> > The following series would be nice to be added on 2.8, because that
> > gets published via pypi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ovs), but
> > unfortunately it lacks reviews
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/805943/
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/805945/
> 
> I'd like to get the release out, but do you think these are important enough
> to hold off the release or can they wait for 2.8.1?
> 
> --Justin
> 
[Alin Serdean] It can wait for 2.8.1 in my opinion.
A use case which is impacted by this, is neutron-ovs-agent (Openstack) using native implementation defined over TCP sockets.
As a workaround, users can use the name pipe implementation instead of the TCP sockets.
Thanks,
Alin.