On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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.
Fixed, thanks. > I don't understand the primary explanation of this issue. What > userspace process's namespace do we care about? ovs-vswitchd, which will only be listening in the initial namespace (at the moment but still a single namespace in the future). The kernel should send all notifications to that namespace and it is not related to where the devices are attached. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
