[ovs-dev] [PATCH V3] hotplug: add openvswitch script

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 09:56 +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:

> Also, it might be interesting to add something like:
> 
> check_tools()
> {
>     if ! type ovs-vsctl > /dev/null 2>&1; then

I think type is a bash-ism but I don't know the portable alternative and
this script uses #!/bin/bash anyhow.

>         fatal "Unable to find ovs-vsctl tool"
>     fi
>     if ! type ip > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>         fatal "Unable to find ip tool"
>     fi
> }
> 
> In order to check that the needed external tools are there.

Can't hurt I suppose. I made it check only in the online case, since
like I said before I'd like remove to try to do as much as it can.