[ovs-dev] [PATCH] openvswitch-switch.init: Redirect error to /dev/null.

Gurucharan Shetty guru at ovn.org
Tue Jan 5 18:18:41 UTC 2016


The latest Open vSwitch kernel module from Upstream linux does not
list "version". During debian package installation, we would see
a non-harmful error in the log. This patch suppresses it.

Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <guru at ovn.org>
---
 debian/openvswitch-switch.init |   13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/openvswitch-switch.init b/debian/openvswitch-switch.init
index aece780..ddf2192 100755
--- a/debian/openvswitch-switch.init
+++ b/debian/openvswitch-switch.init
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+w
 #! /bin/sh
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Nicira, Inc.
@@ -87,11 +88,15 @@ restart () {
         depmod -a
 
         if [ -e /sys/module/openvswitch ]; then
-            LOADED_SRCVERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch/srcversion`
-            LOADED_VERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch/version`
+            LOADED_SRCVERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch/srcversion \
+                               2>/dev/null`
+            LOADED_VERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch/version \
+                            2>/dev/null`
         elif [ -e /sys/module/openvswitch_mod ]; then
-            LOADED_SRCVERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch_mod/srcversion`
-            LOADED_VERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch_mod/version`
+            LOADED_SRCVERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch_mod/srcversion \
+                               2>/dev/null`
+            LOADED_VERSION=`cat /sys/module/openvswitch_mod/version \
+                            2>/dev/null`
         fi
         SRCVERSION=`modinfo -F srcversion openvswitch 2>/dev/null`
         VERSION=`modinfo -F version openvswitch 2>/dev/null`
-- 
1.7.9.5




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