On 02/03/15 at 05:55pm, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > It seems like in general userspace should not allow different
> > extensions to share the same datapath port. This perhaps isn't much of
> > an issue right now but if you enable an extension on one VXLAN port
> > (on the userspace side) and have another that is vanilla then we
> > shouldn't silently use the extension for everything.
> 
> One other thought on this:
> 
> Is it really right for the kernel to ignore unknown extensions? It
> seems like if the user has requested a particular mode and it just
> silently doesn't take effect because the kernel doesn't know about it
> that's not really great.

Agreed to both statements. Are you OK if I fix this in the upstream
kernel first and then backport the changes and in the meantime push
these changes after addressing Pravin's feedback?
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