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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 2/2] openvswitch: add erspan version II support
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:29:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180110222956.3cde64ff@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515549082-4141-3-git-send-email-u9012063@gmail.com>

On Tue,  9 Jan 2018 17:51:22 -0800, William Tu wrote:
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> @@ -363,7 +373,8 @@ enum ovs_tunnel_key_attr {
>  	OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_IPV6_SRC,		/* struct in6_addr src IPv6 address. */
>  	OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_IPV6_DST,		/* struct in6_addr dst IPv6 address. */
>  	OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_PAD,
> -	OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_ERSPAN_OPTS,	/* be32 ERSPAN index. */
> +	OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_ERSPAN_OPTSV1,	/* be32 ERSPAN v1 index (deprecated). */

You can't do this in an uapi header, the existing name must stay the
same forever. Otherwise existing programs would suddenly stop to
compile.

 Jiri

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-10  1:51 [PATCHv2 net-next 0/2] net: erspan: add support for openvswitch William Tu
2018-01-10  1:51 ` [PATCHv2 net-next 1/2] net: erspan: use bitfield instead of mask and offset William Tu
2018-01-10  1:51 ` [PATCHv2 net-next 2/2] openvswitch: add erspan version II support William Tu
2018-01-10 21:29   ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2018-01-10 21:35   ` Jiri Benc
2018-01-10 22:02     ` Jiri Benc
2018-01-11 16:34       ` William Tu
2018-01-12  8:27         ` Jiri Benc
2018-01-12 18:39           ` Pravin Shelar
2018-01-12 19:22             ` William Tu

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