[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ovn: Get hostname from ovs external-ids.

[Justin Pettit]

> On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> A previous commit updated ovs-ctl to store the system's hostname as an
> external-id in the Open_vSwitch table by default.  Make ovn-controller
> read this by default and fall back to gethostname() only if needed.
> 
> Suggested-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>
> Suggested-at: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-March/068225.html
> Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>

What do you think documenting this behavior in the ovn-controller man page?  There's a part that describes various external-ids retrieved from the OVS instance.

Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>

--Justin