On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:52:59PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> Open vSwitch bridges and ports can be configured through
> the /etc/network/interfaces script. During system startup,
> Open vSwitch startup script reads the interfaces file
> and creates the bridges and ports. During system shutdown,
> the bridges and ports are removed.
> 
> The same behavior also can occur with a manual 'restart' of
> Open vswitch (ex: service openvswitch-switch restart).
> This behavior has come across as undesirable in some cases.
> ex: When some one manually creates interfaces through ovs-vsctl
> and then restarts Open vSwitch, that interface is lost.
> 
> This commit changes the startup script such that, interfaces
> are created and deleted through the startup script only when
> RUNLEVEL environment variable is set. This behavior will be
> consistent with the OVS RHEL ifcfg-* scripts too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com>

I guess that RHEL does it in toplevel scripts?  I don't see any existing
mentions of RUNLEVEL in our tree.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
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