On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 07:25:45PM +0000, Alin Serdean wrote:
> From: Alin Serdean <[email protected]>
> 
> When trying to uninstall/disable the OVS extension the driver will
> fail to unload properly(require reboot)/hang until ovs-vswitchd is closed.
> 
> The root cause of this behavior is because the handles from ovs-vswitchd
> to the kernel communication devices are still opened although the
> actual device was removed from the kernel.
> 
> Trying to close the handles will also fail because they do not exist.
> 
> The remaining option is to cause a crash and rely on the service manager
> to restart ovs-vswitchd.
> 
> Reported-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/27
> Reported-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2: Change ovs_fatal to ovs_abort as suggested by Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>

Applied to master, thank you!
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