On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:56:15PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> The nl_lookup_genl_mcgroup() function can fail on older kernels
> which do not support the required netlink interface. Before this
> patch, dpif-linux would refuse to create a datapath when this
> happened. With this patch, it attem
The nl_lookup_genl_mcgroup() function can fail on older kernels
which do not support the required netlink interface. Before this
patch, dpif-linux would refuse to create a datapath when this
happened. With this patch, it attempts to use a workaround. If
the workaround fails it simply disables th
> In the future, it is possible that we will want a fallback for other
> multicast groups as well. Would it make sense to make the fallback
> group an argument to nl_lookup_genl_mcgroup(), with zero to disable
> fallback? (Of course nl_lookup_genl_mcgroup() would still log a
> message that the fa
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 05:55:34PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> The nl_lookup_genl_mcgroup() function can fail on older kernels
> which do not support the required netlink interface. Before this
> patch, dpif-linux would refuse to create a datapath when this
> happened. With this patch, it attem
The nl_lookup_genl_mcgroup() function can fail on older kernels
which do not support the required netlink interface. Before this
patch, dpif-linux would refuse to create a datapath when this
happened. With this patch, it attempts to use a workaround. If
the workaround fails it simply disables th
