On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:10:34PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> 
> On Aug 26, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 06:41:44PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> >> Remove push_vlan from an OF1.0 test, as it requires OF1.1+ support, but was
> >> silently discarded.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
> > 
> > I agree that we should not expect OF1.1+ features to work in OF1.0,
> > but I think that this test result demonstrates a bug somewhere in OVS:
> > it is incorrect to silently discard an action.  I would prefer to fix
> > that, rather than to just stop trying it.
> 
> 
> The later patch does that, as it does "usable protocol" analysis while 
> parsing the actions (and matches). After applying the patch 2/2 the test 
> modified here will fail, hence the modification.
> 
> The issue is a bit more subtle, as silently ignoring a single vlan push kind 
> of works, as a subsequent setting of a vlan ID will implicitly add the vlan 
> header if it did not exist previously.

Ah.

Is there a way to clarify this in the commit message?
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