An occasionally significant problem with the standard "assert" macro is
that it writes the failure message to stderr. In our daemons, stderr is
generally redirected to /dev/null. It's more useful to write the failure
message to the log, which is what the new ovs_assert macro introduced in
this patch does.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
OpenFlow actions have always been somewhat awkward to handle.
Moreover, over time we've started creating actions that require more
complicated parsing. When we maintain those actions internally in
their wire format, we end up parsing them multiple times, whenever
we have to look at the set of actions.
When we add support for OpenFlow 1.1 or later protocols, the situation
will get worse, because these newer protocols support many of the same
actions but with different representations. It becomes unrealistic to
handle each protocol in its wire format.
This commit adopts a new strategy, by converting OpenFlow actions into
an internal form from the wire format when they are read, and converting
them back to the wire format when flows are dumped. I believe that this
will be more maintainable over time.
Thanks to Simon Horman and Pravin Shelar for reviews.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
GCC allows __attribute__s to be included in function prototypes and
then omitted later on the function definition, but sparse complains about
this. Furthermore, sparse doesn't like the placement of the __attribute__s
that we tend to use in OVS.
I don't see any value in "fixing" these to suit sparse so it seems better
to just omit them.
