On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 03:13:35PM -0400, Mark Michelson wrote:
> With this in mind, we'd like to propose an amended plan.

[...]

> In order to facilitate this, OVS will need to be outfitted with ways for OVN
> to probe for the existence of features at runtime. The most obvious use of
> this would be ovn-controller querying ovs-vswitchd about the existence of
> certain OpenFlow match fields and actions.
> 
> We believe this is a more realistically achievable goal, is less likely to
> conflict with other development projects, and is less likely to result in
> bugs being introduced. Since this plan directly implements phases that are
> necessary for the full separation, it acts as a stepping stone rather than a
> band-aid or stop-gap.
> 
> What are your thoughts on this?

Seems reasonable to me.

My only real comment is that I don't think new OVS features are needed
to query for match fields and actions.  I think that we can do that with
what's already available.
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