On May 24, 2013, at 19:26 , ext Jesse Gross wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Rajahalme, Jarno (NSN - FI/Espoo) > <jarno.rajaha...@nsn.com> wrote: >> >> On May 23, 2013, at 20:28 , ext Jesse Gross wrote: >>> The upstream commit is not really right - the check should depend on >>> the origin of the packet, not the location in the networking stack >>> processing it. Most of the time these are somewhat the same but >>> obviously when bridging, received packets commonly go through the >>> transmit path. In the OVS tunnel code, we know that we are doing >>> bridging so I used the looser check. >> >> Any chance on backporting this? Obviously it requires Linux 3.9, but it >> would be nice to have the looser check in the OVS releases that currently go >> the the various distributions. > > Where do you think this would be useful to backport? I'm not aware of > any distributions currently shipping Linux 3.9 and when they do, it's > likely that they'll pull in the current version of OVS at the time.
Oops, sloppy thinking on my part - what I actually wanted to know is if there is any chance to get this change in Linux 3.9 to be backported to earlier linux releases. As a bug fix, I suppose, as the current symptoms crash the system when the warning is done for each packet. Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
