On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote:
> On 3 May 2017 at 19:05, Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> wrote:
>> From: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com>
>>
>> Upstream commit:
>>     commit baf4d7860771287f30fbe9b6b2dc18b04361439d
>>     Author: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com>
>>     Date:   Thu Apr 27 21:24:36 2017 +0200
>>
>>     vxlan: do not output confusing error message
>>
>>     The message "Cannot bind port X, err=Y" creates only confusion. In 
>> metadata
>>     based mode, failure of IPv6 socket creation is okay if IPv6 is disabled 
>> and
>>     no error message should be printed. But when IPv6 tunnel was requested, 
>> such
>>     failure is fatal. The vxlan_socket_create does not know when the error is
>>     harmless and when it's not.
>>
>>     Instead of passing such information down to vxlan_socket_create, remove 
>> the
>>     message completely. It's not useful. We propagate the error code up to 
>> the
>>     user space and the port number comes from the user space. There's 
>> nothing in
>>     the message that the process creating vxlan interface does not know.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org>
>
> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>

Thanks. I pushed patch to master, branch 2.6 and 2.7.
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