Bug 1399827 - RFE: improve ovs handling of netdev types
Summary: RFE: improve ovs handling of netdev types
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openvswitch
Version: 7.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Eelco Chaudron
QA Contact: ovs-qe
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-29 20:38 UTC by Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Modified: 2017-11-07 01:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-01 07:28:26 UTC
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Description Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 2016-11-29 20:38:58 UTC 
As described in the commits below, OVS allows a device with the same name to be opened with different types, and later calls will succeed but grab a reference for a diffrent type. That's a design problem that needs fixing.

Cascardo.

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-July/319966.html

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-August/321648.html
Comment 3 Eelco Chaudron 2017-09-01 07:28:26 UTC 
Closing this as it has been addressed upstream:

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336642.html
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