request for ovs upstart events

[Hiroaki Kawai]

emitting events from openvswitch makes startup scheduling easy that are waiting for ovs start up.

=== modified file 'debian/openvswitch-switch.upstart'
--- debian/openvswitch-switch.upstart 2013-08-23 11:18:52 +0000
+++ debian/openvswitch-switch.upstart 2014-05-01 04:37:12 +0000
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 description "Open vSwitch switch"
 author "James Page <<email address hidden>"

+emits ovs-up
+emits ovs-pre-down
+
 start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=lo)
 stop on runlevel [!2345]

@@ -32,11 +35,13 @@
   fi
   set "$@" $OVS_CTL_OPTS
   "$@"
+ initctl emit ovs-up
 end script

 post-stop script
   . /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib
   test -e /etc/default/openvswitch-switch && . /etc/default/openvswitch-switch

+ initctl emit ovs-pre-down
   ovs_ctl stop
 end script

[James Page (james-page)]

As Xenial onwards is systemd, I'm going to mark this as a Won't Fix as we won't change any versions in upstart based Ubuntu now.