On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:16:51AM +0000, Wojciechowicz, RobertX wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@ovn.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 10:41 PM
> > To: Wojciechowicz, RobertX <robertx.wojciechow...@intel.com>
> > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] ovsdb: Expose vhost-user socket directory
> > in ovsdb
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:25:56AM +0100, Robert Wojciechowicz wrote:
> > > In order to correctly interoperate with Openstack and ODL,
> > > the vhost-user socket directory must be exposed from OVS via OVSDB.
> > > Different distros may package OVS in different ways,
> > > so the locations of these sockets may vary depending on how
> > > ovs-vswitchd has been started. Some clients need information where
> > > the sockets are located when instantiating Qemu virtual machines.
> > > The full vhost-user socket directory is constructed from current
> > > OVS working directory and optionally from specified subdirectory.
> > > This patch exposes vhost-user socket directory in Open_vSwitch
> > > table in other_config column in two following keys:
> > > 1. ovs-run-dir    - OVS working directory
> > > 2. vhost-sock-dir - subdirectory of ovs-run-dir (might be empty)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert Wojciechowicz <robertx.wojciechow...@intel.com>
> > >
> > > v1->v2
> > > - moving vswitch-idl.h dependency inside #ifdef block
> > > - sock_dir_subcomponent initialization with ""
> > 
> > Same comment as v1: architecturally, ovs-vswitchd only reads
> > other-config columns, it never writes to them.  Please fix.
> 
> If ovs-vswitchd cannot writes to other-config then the only place
> for writing default values to this column I can think of is vswitch
> startup script ovs-ctl.
> Basically I tested in my environment the below solution
> and it seems to solve our issue. 
> Is it acceptable approach?

It looks like you're trying to use other-config to report something,
instead of to configure something.  That's not what it's for.
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