netdev - Re: No sysfs directory for openvswitch module when built-in

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Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:11:39 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Ben Pfaff <blp@...stanford.edu>
Cc:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: No sysfs directory for openvswitch module when built-in

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:15:54 -0800
Ben Pfaff <blp@...stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:49:45PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp@...stanford.edu> wrote:
> > > Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> writes:
> > >
> > >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:15:18 +0800
> > >> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hello, Rusty, Jesse,
> > >>>
> > >>> I met an interesting problem when I compile openvswitch module as a
> > >>> built-in (actually I compile ALL kernel modules as built-in), there is
> > >>> no /sys/module/openvswitch/ directory created by the kernel in this
> > >>> case.
> > >>>
> > >>> What's worse, the user-space init script thinks openvswitch module is
> > >>> not loaded by checking the exist of this directory, therefore refuses
> > >>> to start.
> > >>
> > >> Shouldn't the OVS init script be testing for some other API.
> > >
> > > I agree that's a bug in the OVS init script.  I will fix it.
> > 
> > Thanks for taking care of it, Ben!
> 
> I posted a patch to ovs-dev for review:
>         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2013-February/025128.html

Good. The ovsctl test is actually more reliable than the /sys/module
because it means that there isn't some other part broken in the API.
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