On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 06:30:24PM +0200, sreepriya wrote: > Ok. But do you have any idea on why the error occur when I try to add a > bridge/port with a proper name (<15 bytes) later?
It's reporting that there's an error in your configuration. As long as your configuration continues to have an error (that is, a port with a bad name), it will report that there is one. > This doesn't happen when optimisation is disabled. (CFLAGS="O1" is not > given during build. ) This is a little hard to believe. Please re-check the behavior. > Also, even if the port/bridge is not created, it gets listed when I try > $ sudo ovs-vsctl show Yes, you can create an invalid configuration. ovs-vsctl and the OVS database server do not know and cannot reasonably know the maximum length of port names, which varies based on the operating system and the datapath in use, _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss