I'm talking about ovs-vsctl add-port/del-port utility.   
Using this utility the user can configure (CLI) which ports he wants to use 
with openvswitch.
I need same functionality, but in software.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] 
Sent: 20 May 2014 01:00
To: Ellen Rapaport
Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Is there an API to add/delete port in sw?

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.
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