Thanks Martin!

Acked-by: Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com>

On 4/7/25 10:24, Martin Morgenstern via dev wrote:
Update the manpage to reflect the fact that since OVN v20.09.0, the
nb_cfg value has been moved to the Chassis_Private table and the column
in the Chassis table is no longer updated.

Signed-off-by: Martin Morgenstern <martin.morgenst...@cloudandheat.com>
---
v1 --> v2: fix warnings reported by 0-day Robot
---
  ovn-architecture.7.xml | 12 ++++++++----
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ovn-architecture.7.xml b/ovn-architecture.7.xml
index 7b598b203..11efdf9a2 100644
--- a/ovn-architecture.7.xml
+++ b/ovn-architecture.7.xml
@@ -286,14 +286,18 @@
        process in turn updates the physical flows installed in the chassis's
        Open vSwitch instances.  When it receives confirmation from Open vSwitch
        that the physical flows have been updated, it updates 
<code>nb_cfg</code>
-      in its own <code>Chassis</code> record in the southbound database.
+      in its own <code>Chassis_Private</code> record in the southbound
+      database.  (OVN versions before v20.09.0 used the <code>nb_cfg</code>
+      column from the <code>Chassis</code> table.  Although this column still
+      exists, it is deprecated in favor of the same column in
+      <code>Chassis_Private</code> and no longer updated.)
      </li>
<li>
        <code>ovn-northd</code> monitors the <code>nb_cfg</code> column in all 
of
-      the <code>Chassis</code> records in the southbound database.  It keeps
-      track of the minimum value among all the records and copies it into the
-      <code>hv_cfg</code> column in the northbound <code>NB_Global</code>
+      the <code>Chassis_Private</code> records in the southbound database.  It
+      keeps track of the minimum value among all the records and copies it into
+      the <code>hv_cfg</code> column in the northbound <code>NB_Global</code>
        table.  (Thus, the CMS or another observer can determine when all of the
        hypervisors have caught up to the northbound configuration.)
      </li>

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