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Date:	Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:40:25 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>, ffusco@...hat.com,
	fleitner@...hat.com, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/8] openvswitch: Drop user features if old user
 space attempted to create datapath

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> index 07ef2c3..a6863e2 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> @@ -40,7 +40,15 @@ struct ovs_header {
>
>  #define OVS_DATAPATH_FAMILY  "ovs_datapath"
>  #define OVS_DATAPATH_MCGROUP "ovs_datapath"
> -#define OVS_DATAPATH_VERSION 0x1
> +
> +/* V2:
> + *   - API users are expected to provide OVS_DP_ATTR_USER_FEATURES
> + *     with NLM_F_REPLACE when creating the datapath.
> + */
> +#define OVS_DATAPATH_VERSION 2

I'm not sure that I understand this comment - I guess it means that
there's no legacy path when using NLM_F_REPLACE?
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