Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> writes:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 03:05:49PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> Currently, only the netlink datapath supports SCTP connection tracking,
>> but at least this removes the warning message that will pop up when
>> running something like:
>>
>> ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-conntrack
>>
>> This doesn't impact any conntrack functionality, just the display.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>
>
> With this patch, some OVS binaries will support displaying SCTP
> connection tracking information, and some will not, depending on the
> kernel headers that OVS was built against. These kernel headers hardly
> ever are from the same version of the kernel that the user actually
> boots, so the user might end up running OVS without SCTP connection
> tracking display on top of Linux with SCTP connection tracking. This is
> confusing.
>
> In this kind of situation, when we can, we try to compensate for missing
> or old headers or other definitions at compile time, so that OVS
> supports all the kernel features regardless of the headers it was
> compiled against. Commit 1dc0da67b000 ("compat: Add tc compatibility
> headers for old kernels") gives an example of how to do this in a
> similar situation.
>
> Will you please consider how to do this for sctp conntrack display also?
Sure thing.
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
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