[ovs-dev] [Backport Request] For branch-2.5, backport rhel-systemd integration

[Aaron Conole]

Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 11:09:39AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:58:21PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> >> On 09/08/2016 05:50 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> >> It sounds like new feature territory, but you do make a case for
>> >> > it being considered a set of fixes ...
>> >> > 
>> >> > I agree - it straddles a line.  I was hesitant to even ask, but in RHEL
>> >> > we probably need to backport these anyway, so I made an assumption
>> >> > (maybe poor) that other systemd distros might use the rhel scripts and
>> >> > run into this class of issues also.  Good net-izen, and all that :)
>> >> > 
>> >> > -Aaron
>> >> 
>> >> Hi Aaron,
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks for the backport request. I am also interested in these fixes and
>> >> it's something I could use in the SUSE package as well. For my point of
>> >> view I see no blockers for those updating their 2.5.0 installations with
>> >> these fixes in but I will do some testing on my end as well.
>> >
>> > I don't know whether we came to a conclusion on this or whether the
>> > discussion just dropped.  Is it still desirable?
>> 
>> It's definitely desirable from my PoV.  I'd like to see it, and have
>> already gotten it packaged in a local copy of an RPM, just doing some
>> testing.
>> 
>> I don't know if Russell or Flavio have any thoughts.
>
> I'm OK with this backport, but I'll leave it to Russell since ultimately
> it's to improve Red Hat integration.

Quick Update: After some testing, I may have one more patch related to
this.  So we can wait a bit before making a decision, I think.

- Aaron