Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> writes: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 01:58:50PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote: >> Currently, ovs-ofctl and ovs-dpctl allow a 'help' keyword, in addition to -h >> and --help. However, ovs-vsctl does not honor the same 'help' keyword. This >> change adds a 'help' which redirects to usage(), bringing ovs-vsctl in line >> with ovs-ofctl and ovs-dpctl. >> >> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> > > I agree that it's useful to add such a command, but this is a poor > implementation because it still tries to connect to the database. For > example, on my machine here: > > blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/_build(0)$ utilities/ovs-vsctl help > ovs-vsctl: unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: database connection > failed (No such file or directory) > blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/_build(1)$ > > Not very helpful!
d'oh! Thanks, I missed that use case completely. -Aaron _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
