On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:27:36AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:23:34AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:21:01AM +0800, Yi Yang wrote: > > > IETF NSH draft will be approved by end of August, NSH header > > > format has been finalized and won't be change anymore, so we > > > need to follow this final spec to implement nsh. > > > > > > kernel data path also needs finalized uAPIs, they can't be > > > changed once they are merged. > > > > > > This patch adds new nsh key 'ttl', bits of flags and mdtype > > > fields are also changed to follow the final spec. > > > > > > A new action dec_nsh_ttl will be added in the following patch. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <[email protected]> > > > > This is a large change to just update the wire format. Can you make it > > more minimal? > > Actually, let's skip it. I think that we should release OVS 2.8 as is. > We delayed the release mostly to get NSH in, because Jan said that it > was important to them, but then it turns out that the NSH protocol is > still changing? What a waste. I will not make that mistake again.
Ben, the confirmation I got from one of NSH draft authors is it won't be changed except some text description, moreover it will be approved as IETF RFC very soon. So I think you can consider this again. Maybe OVS master can apply them if it is too late for OVS 2.8. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
