[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Add wrapper scripts for *ctl commands

Ryan Moats rmoats at us.ibm.com
Tue Aug 2 13:34:08 UTC 2016



Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org> wrote on 08/02/2016 07:11:38 AM:

> From: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
> To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc: ovs dev <dev at openvswitch.org>
> Date: 08/02/2016 07:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Add wrapper scripts for *ctl commands
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> This commit creates wrapper scripts for the *ctl commands to use
> --dry-run for those that have them, and to allow for log level
> setting via ovs-appctl without allowing full access to ovs-appctl.
> Tests have been added to make sure that the wrapper scripts
> don't actually do anything when asked to perform a write operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
>
> What's the motivation for all the new "read" scripts?  It seems a
> bit confusing to install all of these.  They're also not documented
anywhere.
>
> I see the thread discussing this now.  I'm still not a big fan of
> installing this for everyone...

I admit that I need to respin with better documentation, but I
doubt that alone would make you a fan...



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