On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:31 PM Mark Michelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Last month, commit d7514abe1 (acl-log: Log the direction (logical
> pipeline) of the matching ACL.) was added to the main branch of OVN.
> This commit was made because of the issue report at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1992641 .
>
> At the time the change was added, it was not considered for a backport
> to OVN 21.12 because it modifies the contents of ACL logs. The fear was
> that if people have written parsers for ACL logs, the addition of a new
> field could cause issues. This is not a very friendly thing to do during
> a minor update.
>
> However, the change was made in an attempt to correct a deficiency in
> the ACL logs. Without the change, it appears that there are duplicate
> ACL logs since there is nothing to distinguish the pipeline on which the
> ACL matched. Also, there is no documented contract about ACL log format;
> they are intended to be human readable, and that's all.
>
> My question is if the community would be OK with backporting this fix to
> OVN 21.12 in light of the change to the ACL log contents. Please let me
> know what you think.

Hi Mark,

No objections from me.

Numan

>
> Thanks,
> Mark Michelson
>
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