[ovs-dev] [PATCH] patch to remove standard linux bridge on startup of openvswitch

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Dec 14 20:04:18 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Patrick Mullaney wrote:
> openvswitch: starting on a system with the native bridge loaded fails

This is expedient for now, but in the long term Open vSwitch will be
able to coexist with the Linux bridge, so I wonder whether it sets a bad
precedent.  Do we really want OVS unconditionally tearing down all the
bridges?

Would it make more sense to try to remove the bridge module if it is
there, but allow it to fail if there are any existing bridges?  This
would be more forward-compatible.

Comments appreciated.

Thanks,

Ben.




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