On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 12:59 PM Numan Siddique <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 2:29 AM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> This commit adds new columns virtual_ip and virtual_parents in the
>> Logical_Switch_Port table, which are used for the new 'virtual' port
>> type.  Most of the time, if a particular port type has type-specific
>> options, they go in the "options" column.  This has the advantage that
>> we don't end up with lots of columns that are rarely used.  It does have
>> some disadvantages.  For example, "options" can't be strong or weak
>> references, and it requires some convention for having more than one
>> value.  virtual_ip and virtual_parents don't have the former issue,
>> though virtual_parents does have the latter issue.  Did you think
>> through whether these should be options or new columns?
>>
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> Actually I didn't think through this. Thanks for pointing this out. I
> think it
> makes sense to have these as options. It would require a little bit of
> parsing for virtual_parents - it has to be a comma separated string of
> logical port names. I think that's reasonable as a logical
> switch most likely will not  have many ports of this new type.
>
> I will work on it and submit v2.
>

Done.  v3  submitted - https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1105665/

 Numan


> Thanks
> Numan
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