On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:35:43PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> In the 'interfaces' file, if an admin adds the openvswitch interface
> in 'auto', ifupdown will try to create OVS interfaces even before
> openvswitch has started. In a case like that, assume that the admin
> knows what he is doing and try to start openvswitch.
> 
> The negatives I see are
> 1. /usr is NFS mounted, in which case expect the admin
> to mount it through initramfs.
> 2. syslog through network may not be accessible.
> 
> This is similar to what rhel does with commit 602453000e28ec10
> (rhel: Automatically start openvswitch service before bringing an ovs
> interface up or down)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com>

Seems worth a shot.

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