On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Rajahalme, Jarno (NSN - FI/Espoo) <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 31, 2013, at 11:23 , ext Jesse Gross wrote: > >> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Fan Du <[email protected]> wrote: >>> [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Use EEXIST as return error when adding vport >>> >>> Hi, Jesse >>> >>> Those two patches attempts to use EEXIST as return error when trying >>> to add an vport which is actually already in place as the reason to user. >>> And furthermore, we warn user in any reason other than EEXIST too. >> >> It's not sufficient to update both the userspace and kernel because >> there's no requirement that the same versions be paired together. >> Therefore, after this patch the kernel won't work with old userspace >> versions and userspace will not work with old kernels. >> >> I don't think there is really a good way to solve this but the change >> seems mostly aesthetic to me at this point. > > Maybe there should be a "known (aesthetic) issues" file somewhere, where > things like this could be recorded. > Could be also useful if there comes a time when things are cleaned up without > worries about old versions.
I guess, although in this case I don't really see a strong argument for either one or the other. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
