[ovs-dev] [PATCH] fedora: do not restart the service on a pkg upgrade

Russell Bryant russell at ovn.org
Wed Oct 19 19:26:10 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com> wrote:

> There is no reliable way to restore the previous networking
> state after a service restart. Many things like firewall
> configuration, traffic shaping, stacked devices, custom setups
> are completely out of OVS control.
>
> The OVS might be providing the network used for remote
> administration, so do not automatically restart the service
> during a package upgrade.
>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
>

Do you think this should be backported, as well?

-- 
Russell Bryant



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