netdev - Re: [PATCHv10 ovs 03/15] datapath: Add 'is_mask' to ovs_nla_put

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Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:17:19 -0800
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
Cc:	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv10 ovs 03/15] datapath: Add 'is_mask' to ovs_nla_put_flow().

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com> wrote:
> On 13 November 2014 11:17, Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com> wrote:
>> This function previously hid the 'is_mask' parameter from the callers,
>> which actually have better knowledge about whether it is serializing a
>> mask or not. Expose this parameter to the callers. This allows the same
>> function to be called to serialize masked keys as well as masked keys.
>>
>> To serialize an unmasked key:
>> ovs_nla_put_flow(key, key, skb, false);
>>
>> To serialize a masked key:
>> ovs_nla_put_flow(mask, key, skb, false);
>>
>> To serialize a mask:
>> ovs_nla_put_flow(key, mask, skb, true);
>
> I'll add helpers for each of these functions:
> ovs_nla_put_{un,}masked_key(), ovs_nla_put_mask() in the next version.

sounds good to me.
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