On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 05:43:53PM +0200, Adrian Moreno wrote:
> As discussed in [1], "igmp" is not a special OF header so
> ofp_parse_protocol() does not accept it. However, it's still being
> printed by match_format().
> 
> This makes flow dump restoration fail if it contains this match,
> which affects for instance the ovs-save script used by "ovs-ctl restart"
> to make ovs-vswitchd restart have less impact on the datapath.
> 
> I am aware this change might break users that already expect this
> keyword but on the other hand, the fact that flows cannot be saved and
> restored could be considered a bug.
> 
> An alternative to make "ovs-save" work would be to use "sed" to rewrite
> the match, but that would still expose the failure to any user not using
> that script.
> 
> Sending the patch to gather feedback on this topic
> 
> [1] 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/[email protected]/

Ilya, I think your opinion is the most important here.
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