On 7/7/21 8:41 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 7/6/21 3:36 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 03:27:41PM +0200, Adrian Moreno wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/6/21 2:50 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 08:25:59AM +0200, Adrian Moreno wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/5/21 4:15 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 05:43:54PM +0200, Adrian Moreno wrote:
>>>>>>> The match keyword "igmp" is not supported in ofp-parse, which means
>>>>>>> that flow dumps cannot be restored. This patch prints the igmp match
>>>>>>> in the accepted format (ip,nw_proto=2) and adds a test.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I raised concerns about changing the output and break scripts in
>>>>>> the past.  However, it seems not removing the keyword also cause
>>>>>> issues, so I am not opposing to remove the igmp keyword anymore.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Flavio. Do you think this is an acceptable solution also for 
>>>>> stable branches?
>>>>
>>>> My concern is that changing the output can potentially break
>>>> somebody else's script and that is really bad in a stable
>>>> release update.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, this is an user visible change, so I'd say that the patch
>>>> needs to highlight that in the NEWS file too.
>>>>
>>> OK. I'll send another update, thanks.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> If not, how about replacing the flows in ovs-save so that upgrades of 
>>>>> stable
>>>>> branches work fine?
>>>>
>>>> You mean fixing ovs-save in master or in stable branches?
>>>>
>>> My proposal was:
>>> - changing the output + advertise in NEWS in master branch (and future 
>>> releases)
>>> - add a workaround in ovs-save in stable branches to ensure they can be 
>>> upgraded
>>> without big datapath impact
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> Sounds like a good plan to me.
> 
> Sounds good to me too.  This way we will change the behavior in current
> release and will fix the existing issue in ovs-save on stable branches.
> 
> Adrian, could you send a v2 as a patch set where the first patch implements
> a workaround in ovs-save (this one we will apply to master and backport)
> and the second patch changes the actual output (and removes the workaround
> from ovs-save?) ?
> 

Will do, thanks Ilya

> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> 

-- 
Adrián Moreno

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