[ovs-discuss] Is there an API to add/delete port in sw?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 01:03:47PM +0000, Ellen Rapaport wrote:
> I need on demand functionality for adding and deleting ports.
> I'm implementing netdev class with netlink listener. When I'm notified about a creation of a new interface (during netdev_run) I would like to create a netdev instance for it and to add this port to an OVSDB. The same about deletion.
> Is there a clean way to do it?

ovs-vswitchd never adds or removes ports.

Maybe you could tell us more about your use case.