[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ofproto-dpif: Allow IPv6 ND Extensions only if supported

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Fri Nov 22 18:12:03 UTC 2019


On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:22:49 -0800
Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:28:03AM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:21:13 -0300
> > Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > The IPv6 ND Extensions is only implemented in userspace datapath,
> > > but nothing prevents that to be used with other datapaths.
> > > 
> > > This patch probes the datapath and only allows if the support
> > > is available.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 9b2b84973 ("Support for match & set ICMPv6 reserved and
> > > options type fields") Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner
> > > <fbl at sysclose.org> ---  
> > 
> > This fix should be applied to branch-2.12 as well.
> > The same patch applies today, otherwise let me know and I can send
> > out the back-porting too.  
> 
> I applied this to master and branch-2.12.
> 
> Since you posted this patch, William pushed commit 27501802d09f
> ("ofproto-dpif: Expose datapath capability to ovsdb.") that exposes
> datapath capabilities via OVSDB and, more importantly, documents the
> meanings of each of the capabilities.  Would you mind sending a
> followup patch to add documentation for this new capability?

I posted a patch documenting and exposing it:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-November/365078.html

Thanks Ben!
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fbl


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