[ovs-discuss] An issue has to fix in all OVS releases

[Ben Pfaff]

OK.  I'm glad it works with OVS 1.4.0.  We are planning to keep OVS
scripts in sync with upstream XenServer from now on (mostly, by not
installing any scripts over the upstream XenServer versions), so with
luck the problem will not recur.

I imagine that there are few users of SR-IOV who install OVS on top of
it, since OVS and SR-IOV don't really work together anyhow, so I doubt
it's worth backporting.  Still, if you want to do so, we'll look over
the patches and apply them if they appear safe.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +0530, Ramana Reddy wrote:
> The observation I had with the current XenServer 6.0 is, its working fine
> with
> default OVS-1.0.99. And not working with any new OVS, except OVS-1.4.0.
> That's the reason, I posted my observation.
> Thanks,
> Ramana Reddy.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > We do our best to backport fixes to earlier release branches when they
> > are either important or easy to backport.  The fact that this fix wasn't
> > backported demonstrates that it didn't fall into one of those
> > categories, or that we overlooked it.  If you need the fix on an earlier
> > version, you are free to backport it and, if you like, post the patch
> > (clearly labeled as e.g. "PATCH branch-1.3") to ovs-dev.
> >
> > This is also the first I've heard that this patch had anything to do
> > with SR-IOV support.  We only applied it earlier to keep in sync with
> > upstream XenServer.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:32:56PM +0530, Ramana Reddy wrote:
> > > Irrespective of the OVS version, it should work right?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:24:07PM +0530, Ramana Reddy wrote:
> > > > > The  function call_hook_script is missing in the file
> > > > > etc_xensource_scripts_vif in xenserver folder
> > > > > in all OVS releases, except OVS-1.4.0. This is needed for xenserver
> > for
> > > > > SRIOV support.
> > > > > Please update this issue.
> > > >
> > > > Why don't you just install OVS 1.4.0?
> > > >
> >