openvswitch: Clarify conntrack COMMIT behaviour

The presence of this attribute does not modify the ct_state for the
current packet, only future packets. Make this more clear in the header
definition.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
index 036f73bc54cd692763dc04954151d45a28f5e98d..e663627a8ef36530b4dc658e9d30d4b7bc32a90a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
@@ -620,7 +620,8 @@ struct ovs_action_hash {
  * enum ovs_ct_attr - Attributes for %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT action.
  * @OVS_CT_ATTR_COMMIT: If present, commits the connection to the conntrack
  * table. This allows future packets for the same connection to be identified
- * as 'established' or 'related'.
+ * as 'established' or 'related'. The flow key for the current packet will
+ * retain the pre-commit connection state.
  * @OVS_CT_ATTR_ZONE: u16 connection tracking zone.
  * @OVS_CT_ATTR_MARK: u32 value followed by u32 mask. For each bit set in the
  * mask, the corresponding bit in the value is copied to the connection