On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:26:26PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 09:13:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:24:55AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:47:48AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:39:23AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > > I suggest a list of supported protocols, instead of a min/max, because > > > > > ONF recently standardized a way to negotiate a set of protocols rather > > > > > than a range. Do you have access to the OpenFlow 1.3.1 standard? (It > > > > > doesn't seem to be on the opennetworking.org website yet.) It is in > > > > > there. > > > > > > > > Simon, are you working on the 1.3.1 version negotiation protocol or do > > > > you plan to work on it? If not, let me know: I may take the time to > > > > implement this myself. > > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > sorry for not replying earlier. I have done some work in this area > > > but I am not comfortable with publishing it as the Open Flow 1.3.1 spec > > > has not been published yet. > > > > The 1.3.1 spec has been approved by the ONF board. We've been told in > > the past that it's fine to publish implementations of unpublished > > standards. In fact, this will be *required* for 1.4: only features that > > have been implemented in some open source switch will be accepted for > > 1.4. So I don't think that 1.3.1 not being published is a good reason > > not to send out a patch series. > > Thanks, very good to know. > > To be clear, I have a series that doesn't use Open Flow 1.3.1 version > negotiation protocol but has been designed to allow it to be easily added. > And I have done some preparatory work on the Hello extension described in > Open Flow 1.3.1. So from here I see myself having two choices: > > 1. Post the series as is (very soon) > - Actually its already in > git://github.com/horms/openvswitch.git devel/of1.2-runtime-switch2 > but I am waiting to verify the presence or absence of a bug > relating to selection of flow formats. > > 2. Add Open Flow 1.3.1 version negotiation and then post (a bit later)
Either way seems fine. If #2 takes a while then fall back to #1 and I'll work on 1.3.1 negotiation. Thanks! _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
