linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 7/7] openvswitch: Change CT_ATTR_FLAGS to CT_ATTR

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Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2015 15:26:10 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 7/7] openvswitch: Change CT_ATTR_FLAGS to CT_ATTR_COMMIT

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com> wrote:
> Previously, the CT_ATTR_FLAGS attribute, when nested under the
> OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT, encoded a 32-bit bitmask of flags that modify the
> semantics of the ct action. It's more extensible to just represent each
> flag as a nested attribute, and this requires no additional error
> checking to reject flags that aren't currently supported.
>
> Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@...ira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
> ---
> v2: Use bitmask for internal representation of COMMIT.
> ---
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
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