On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 8, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Kyle Mestery <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <[email protected]> >>> --- >>> datapath/datapath.c | 4 ++-- >>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> Applied, thanks Kyle. > > Thanks Jesse. Fedora rolled up to this version, so to keep using OVS, this was > necessary. > > Just curious, does this check basically ensure that someone at least runs OVS > with > future versions of the kernel before committing it into the OVS tree? Is it > preventing people from shooting themselves in the foot in case an API changes > upstream?
The latter. In the best case, when something changes upstream users get a bunch of compiler errors and complain that OVS doesn't work. In the worst case, the API that OVS uses doesn't change but the meaning does and things compile but crash or otherwise misbehave. In this case nothing needed to change but that's pretty rare. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
