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Date:	Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:08:13 -0800
From:	Ben Pfaff <blp@...stanford.edu>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
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

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.
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