On 24 Nov 2020, at 2:57, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:36:39 +0100 Matteo Croce wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:12 PM Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org>
wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:04:04 -0500 Eelco Chaudron wrote:
Currently, the openvswitch module is not accepting the correctly
formated
netlink message for the TTL decrement action. For both setting and
getting
the dec_ttl action, the actions should be nested in the
OVS_DEC_TTL_ATTR_ACTION attribute as mentioned in the openvswitch.h
uapi.
IOW this change will not break any known user space, correct?
But existing OvS user space already expects it to work like you
make it work now?
What's the harm in leaving it as is?
Fixes: 744676e77720 ("openvswitch: add TTL decrement action")
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echau...@redhat.com>
Can we get a review from OvS folks? Matteo looks good to you (as the
original author)?
I think that the userspace still has to implement the dec_ttl action;
by now dec_ttl is implemented with set_ttl().
So there is no breakage yet.
Eelco, with this fix we will encode the netlink attribute in the same
way for the kernel and netdev datapath?
We don't allow breaking uAPI. Sounds like the user space never
implemented this and perhaps the nesting is just inconvenient
but not necessarily broken? If it is broken and unusable that
has to be clearly explained in the commit message. I'm dropping
v1 from patchwork.
Thanks, I will add some explaining comments to the V2, and sent it out.
