On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 03:05:49PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Currently, only the netlink datapath supports SCTP connection tracking,
> but at least this removes the warning message that will pop up when
> running something like:
>
> ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-conntrack
>
> This doesn't impact any conntrack functionality, just the display.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>
With this patch, some OVS binaries will support displaying SCTP
connection tracking information, and some will not, depending on the
kernel headers that OVS was built against. These kernel headers hardly
ever are from the same version of the kernel that the user actually
boots, so the user might end up running OVS without SCTP connection
tracking display on top of Linux with SCTP connection tracking. This is
confusing.
In this kind of situation, when we can, we try to compensate for missing
or old headers or other definitions at compile time, so that OVS
supports all the kernel features regardless of the headers it was
compiled against. Commit 1dc0da67b000 ("compat: Add tc compatibility
headers for old kernels") gives an example of how to do this in a
similar situation.
Will you please consider how to do this for sctp conntrack display also?
Thanks,
Ben.
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