[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] debian: Automatically start openvswitch before first invocation of ovs-vsctl.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:35:43PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> In the 'interfaces' file, if an admin adds the openvswitch interface
> in 'auto', ifupdown will try to create OVS interfaces even before
> openvswitch has started. In a case like that, assume that the admin
> knows what he is doing and try to start openvswitch.
> 
> The negatives I see are
> 1. /usr is NFS mounted, in which case expect the admin
> to mount it through initramfs.
> 2. syslog through network may not be accessible.
> 
> This is similar to what rhel does with commit 602453000e28ec10
> (rhel: Automatically start openvswitch service before bringing an ovs
> interface up or down)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

Seems worth a shot.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>