[ovs-dev] [PATCH] connmgr: Reinitialise controllers if protocols changes

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:33:35PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:30:19PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Reinitialise controllers if the allowed OpenFlow protocols changes.
> > 
> > This is allows protocol changes to take effect without needing
> > to restart ovs-vswitchd. However, connected controllers will
> > be disconnected regardless of if the OpenFlow protocol of the
> > session remains acceptable or not.
> > 
> > My feeling is that this is acceptable to avoid the complexity
> > of further modifications to ofconn and pvconn to allow live
> > updates of protocols.
> 
> Applied to master, thanks.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is really the best way to do it, but we can
> always improve it later if need be.

Thanks, I agree entirely. It was the best simple solution I could
think of yesterday.