[ovs-dev] Bug#681955: [PATCH] ovs-ctl: Start the rest of Open vSwitch if loading brcompat module fails.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Jul 26 22:01:26 UTC 2012


This may be more useful in practice than failing the entire OVS startup
sequence.

Debian bug #681955.
CC: 681955 at bugs.debian.org
Reported-by: Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
---
 utilities/ovs-ctl.in |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
index 552cef3..9925fdb 100755
--- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
@@ -64,7 +64,12 @@ insert_brcompat_mod_if_required () {
 insert_mod_if_required () {
     insert_openvswitch_mod_if_required || return 1
     if test X"$BRCOMPAT" = Xyes; then
-        insert_brcompat_mod_if_required || return 1
+        if insert_brcompat_mod_if_required; then
+            :
+        else
+            log_warning_msg "brcompat module could not be loaded, disabling bridge compatibility"
+            BRCOMPAT=no
+        fi
     fi
 }
 
-- 
1.7.2.5



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