[ovs-dev] Upstart init scripts

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:48:25PM -0800, Ed Swierk wrote:
> I converted the debian/openvswitch-switch.init script to a set of
> upstart scripts.  The main advantage of using upstart is that it's
> easier to ensure that a datapath is fully set up with bridge
> compatibility before other services (like libvirt) try to use it.  (Many
> distributions ship a buggy libvirt that doesn't support the
> script=/etc/ovs-ifup command-line option needed for native datapath
> integration.)
> 
> I've only tested the scripts on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) but they should
> work with other versions of Ubuntu, and on any other distribution that
> uses upstart.

Do you think that it would be valuable to include these as part of the
Open vSwitch distribution?