netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] openvswitch: Allow attaching helper in later commit

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Date:   Sun, 06 Oct 2019 15:24:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yihung.wei@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] openvswitch: Allow attaching helper in
 later commit

From: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>
Date: Fri,  4 Oct 2019 09:26:44 -0700

> This patch allows to attach conntrack helper to a confirmed conntrack
> entry.  Currently, we can only attach alg helper to a conntrack entry
> when it is in the unconfirmed state.  This patch enables an use case
> that we can firstly commit a conntrack entry after it passed some
> initial conditions.  After that the processing pipeline will further
> check a couple of packets to determine if the connection belongs to
> a particular application, and attach alg helper to the connection
> in a later stage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>
> ---
> v1->v2, Use logical OR instead of bitwise OR as Dave suggested.

Applied.