[ovs-dev] [RFC] Provide shared library for simple actions

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:57:03PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> It seems that the best way to create/destroy bridges or add/remove
> ports is using OVSDB protocol, but as far as I know there is no
> shared library yet for that.
> 
> Since libvirt, NetworkManager and perhaps other components need
> to do the same tasks, maybe openvswitch can provide such shared
> library with a simple API exporting the basics (create/destroy/
> add/remove)
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm really in favor of that.  It would be some work getting it right.

The first step might be to propose a straw-man header file.