On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 03:30:05PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 03:20:52PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> > It's possible to imagine that a switch might want to report additional
>> > capabilities related to Geneve beyond just the number of options and
>> > how much space they can consume. Some examples include additional
>> > restrictions on parsing (if this command is used for non-OVS 
>> > implementations
>> > or OVS changes how it works) and per-packet actions that can't be done
>> > generically (such as checksums or encryption). It's not yet clear if
>> > these will be necessary or if OpenFlow is the right place to expose
>> > them. However, it's easy to do now and there is very little cost so
>> > it seems like a good idea to leave some additional reserved space.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com>
>>
>> I'd consider s/pad/zero/ to make it easier for receivers to be sure
>> (later) that they're interpreting non-garbage.
>
> Oh, but it's fine either way:
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>

I changed it to 'reserved' since I think that's more canonical and
applied this to master.
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