[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Revert "ovs-lib: Try to call exit before killing."

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:02:41AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> This reverts commit 9b5422a98f817b9f2a1f8224cab7e1a8d0bbba1f.
> 
> Reason:
> Calling 'ovs-appctl exit' on ovs-vswitchd will cause ovs-vswitchd
> to destroy all the ports from the datapath. This is an unacceptable
> behavior while restarting the daemons. Couple of reasons that come
> to mind are:
> 
> 1. Any configured ip addresses will be lost
> 2. Traffic will stop flowing.
> 
> Reported-by: Edgar Cantu <eocantu at us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <guru at ovn.org>

I prefer the following patch: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/579068/

I see I forgot to credit Edgar for reporting the problem.  I'll fix
that.