Thanks, I pushed this.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 03:45:13PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> Looks great.  Thank you.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Suggested-by: Justin Pettit <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > lib/ofp-actions.h |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/ofp-actions.h b/lib/ofp-actions.h
> > index 75ccc26..46e2d79 100644
> > --- a/lib/ofp-actions.h
> > +++ b/lib/ofp-actions.h
> > @@ -108,7 +108,31 @@ enum {
> >  *
> >  * Each action is a structure "struct ofpact_*" that begins with "struct
> >  * ofpact", usually followed by other data that describes the action.  
> > Actions
> > - * are padded out to a multiple of OFPACT_ALIGNTO bytes in length. */
> > + * are padded out to a multiple of OFPACT_ALIGNTO bytes in length.
> > + *
> > + * The 'compat' member is special:
> > + *
> > + *     - Most "struct ofpact"s correspond to one particular kind of 
> > OpenFlow
> > + *       action, at least in a given OpenFlow version.  For example,
> > + *       OFPACT_SET_VLAN_VID corresponds to OFPAT10_SET_VLAN_VID in 
> > OpenFlow
> > + *       1.0.
> > + *
> > + *       For such actions, the 'compat' member is not meaningful and 
> > generally
> > + *       should be zero.
> > + *
> > + *     - A few "struct ofpact"s correspond to multiple OpenFlow actions.  
> > For
> > + *       example, OFPACT_SET_TUNNEL can be NXAST_SET_TUNNEL or
> > + *       NXAST_SET_TUNNEL64.  In these cases, if the "struct ofpact" 
> > originated
> > + *       from OpenFlow, then we want to make sure that, if it gets 
> > translated
> > + *       back to OpenFlow later, it is translated back to the same action 
> > type.
> > + *       (Otherwise, we'd violate the promise made in DESIGN, in the 
> > "Action
> > + *       Reproduction" section.)
> > + *
> > + *       For such actions, the 'compat' member should be the original 
> > action
> > + *       type.  (If the action didn't originate from OpenFlow, then setting
> > + *       'compat' to zero should be fine: code to translate the ofpact to
> > + *       OpenFlow must tolerate this case.)
> > + */
> > struct ofpact {
> >     enum ofpact_type type;      /* OFPACT_*. */
> >     enum ofputil_action_code compat; /* Original type when added, if any. */
> > -- 
> > 1.7.2.5
> > 
> 
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