On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 02:40:13PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > We currently notify for port deletions in the namespace of the device > that was deleted. In general this should be initial namespace because > that's the only place where we look but it's possible that the device > was moved after being attached. However, it's not semantically correct > because we really care about the namespace of the userspace process, not > that of the device. This switches to genl_multicast() which always uses > the initial namespace and seems more appropriate anyways. > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com>
s/genl_multicast/genlmsg_multicast/ in the commit message. I don't understand the primary explanation of this issue. What userspace process's namespace do we care about? I do agree that genlmsg_multicast() is more appropriate anyway and I'm in favor of the patch on that basis regardless of any others, so: Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
