[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-vsctl: check if the device name is valid

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Nov 1 18:01:06 UTC 2012


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch> wrote:
> I was considering to add a notification bus allowing for ovs-vsctl
> to sleep and wait for a success or error notification and thus block
> until the operation has been carried out by vswitchd or a timeout is
> reached. It would be more flexible but also more intrusive and
> complex. I doubt that adding ports is the only operation that is
> affected by the above usability defect, right?

There is already means to wait until the operation is complete,
and ovs-vsctl already uses that mechanism by default.  You have
to use "--no-wait" to disable it.  You can already enable a timeout
with "--timeout".
-- 
"I don't normally do acked-by's.  I think it's my way of avoiding
getting blamed when it all blows up."               Andrew Morton



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