From e0631927690a5c2a9ba19dcc4d51e51921435e3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:28:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ovs-ofctl: Document padding in "note" actions. Reported-by: Paul Ingram Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff --- utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index 4164bc9e..fdaa037d 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -886,6 +886,10 @@ processing. Does nothing at all. Any number of bytes represented as hex digits \fIhh\fR may be included. Pairs of hex digits may be separated by periods for readability. +The \fBnote\fR action's format doesn't include an exact length for its +payload, so the provided bytes will be padded on the right by enough +bytes with value 0 to make the total number 6 more than a multiple of +8. . .IP "\fBmove:\fIsrc\fB[\fIstart\fB..\fIend\fB]\->\fIdst\fB[\fIstart\fB..\fIend\fB]\fR" Copies the named bits from field \fIsrc\fR to field \fIdst\fR. -- 2.30.2