OVS has had a MAX_MONITORS macro definition there forever.  On
Windows, the name conflicts with something defined in a system header.
Therefore, Guru's patch renames the OVS macro to avoid a conflict.

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:47:20PM +0000, Eitan Eliahu wrote:
> I realize that that we get a compilation error but this definition in the 
> ddeml.h has different semantics (and it is set to 4 rather to 8).
> Perhaps you want to undefined it and have your own definition instead.
> Thanks,
> Eitan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gurucharan Shetty [mailto:shet...@nicira.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 3:23 PM
> To: Eitan Eliahu
> Cc: dev@openvswitch.org; Gurucharan Shetty
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] rconn: Prevent redefinition of 'MAX_MONITORS' 
> in Windows.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Eitan Eliahu <elia...@vmware.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guru,
> > The Windows definition refers to "DDE" monitors. I'm not sure you want to 
> > use this semantics here.
> ddeml.h gets included indirectly in our builds (likely through windows.h?). 
> ddeml.h already has a MAX_MONITORS defined. This results in OVS builds 
> getting a macro redefinition warnings. This patch tries to get rid of the 
> warning. Does that make sense?
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Eitan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Gurucharan 
> > Shetty
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 1:23 PM
> > To: dev@openvswitch.org
> > Cc: Gurucharan Shetty
> > Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] rconn: Prevent redefinition of 'MAX_MONITORS' in 
> > Windows.
> >
> > Windows already has a MAX_MONITORS defined in ddeml.h.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/rconn.c |    4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/rconn.c b/lib/rconn.c index c9b68bb..5c28806 100644
> > --- a/lib/rconn.c
> > +++ b/lib/rconn.c
> > @@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ struct rconn {
> >      uint8_t dscp;
> >
> >      /* Messages sent or received are copied to the monitor connections. */ 
> > -#define MAX_MONITORS 8
> > -    struct vconn *monitors[8];
> > +#define MAXIMUM_MONITORS 8
> > +    struct vconn *monitors[MAXIMUM_MONITORS];
> >      size_t n_monitors;
> >
> >      uint32_t allowed_versions;
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
> >
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