On 14 March 2017 at 11:27, Joe Stringer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 February 2017 at 14:25, Eric Garver <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This series adds support for the creation of tunnels using the rtnetlink
>> interface. This will open the possibility for new features and flags on those
>> vports without the need to change vport compatibility code.
>>
>> Support for STT and LISP have not been added because these are not upstream 
>> yet,
>> so we don't know how the interface will be like upstream. And there are no
>> features in the current drivers right now we could make use of.
>>
>> Note: This work originally started by Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo.
>
> Is there anything in particular about this RFC v5 that you are
> requesting comments for, or are you looking for general review?
>
> It looks like travis is failing the userspace build, most likely
> because Travis has quite an old kernel. These patches are including
> newer linux uapi headers from the user side code. Most likely you will
> need to provide linux header backports for a few symbols in the
> include/linux/ directory, for example IFLA_VXLAN_LEARNING. The
> hardware offloads series that was posted recently is doing a similar
> thing for providing linux headers that userspace can build against.
> https://travis-ci.org/joestringer/openvswitch/builds/210668063

Looking at lib/dpif-rtnetlink.[ch], it seems that you're already
providing definitions for some of these symbols within that file. If
that is the only file that needs them, then it should be fine to keep
them there.
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