[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: Fix issue of networking not working when Tools not installed

[Jesse Gross]

Justin Pettit wrote:
> During the transition to the configuration database, not all code from
> the bridge compatibility layer was updated.  In particular, the code
> which removes port configuration based on RTNL notifications of port
> removal was not updated.  This commit brings that code back.
> 
> Note that the code that removes ports based on actively checking whether
> ports exist is still commented out pending a review of its impact on GRE
> support.

If the active polling portion is important then we could do it just for 
devices of system type.  Those should be the only ones that can appear 
and disappear without our direct control and they also won't have the 
types of problems that GRE does.