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

Flavio Leitner fbl at redhat.com
Mon Jul 14 19:10:05 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 01:59:18PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.
 
Alright, I will add that to my To-Do list in case no one else
gets it done first.

Thanks for the feedback,
fbl



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