[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/8] vswitch: Document columns that had been previously overlooked.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:00:36PM +0100, Daniele Venturino wrote:
> > +            STP and RSTP are mutually exclusive.  If both are enabled, RSTP
> > +            will be used.
> 
> 
> I think this might not be true.
> If it has not been changed, when STP or RSTP is enabled it should not be possible to enable the other one on the same bridge. 
> This is done in bridge_configure_stp() and bridge_configure_rstp() in vswitchd/bridge.c.

Do you mean that, if the database enables both STP and RSTP, then which
one becomes active depends on the order in which they are enabled?  If
so, then we should fix that: Open vSwitch configuration should be a
function of the database's contents, not of the database's history.