On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:36:30AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 02:06:12PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > My understanding of the implementation of patch ports is that they
> > are rather special, being handled as a special case inside
> > compose_output_action__() and do not exist in the datapath.
> > 
> > A side effect of the implementation of patch ports (though perhaps not the
> > portion mentioned above) is that the OFPUTIL_PC_PORT_DOWN bit may not be
> > set via a port mod message. In particular, the call to
> > netdev_turn_flags_on() in update_port_config() fails.
> > 
> > There is a test provided by Ryu that test this via port mod and thus fails.
> > 
> > While that test could be modified or the results ignored it seems to me
> > that it would be best if ryu-check used ports which were more fully
> > featured and not special cases.
> > 
> > Thus this patch moves run-ryu to use unix socket backed ports rather than
> > patch ports.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au>
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> The following seemed good rationale so I folded it into the commit message:

Thanks!
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