On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:01:48PM +0000, Tobias Hofmann -T (tohofman - AAP3 INC at Cisco) via discuss wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that the property datapath_type of a freshly created bridge is by > default empty. In order to support DPDK, I have to set the datapath_type to > netdev. > > Now when I want to disable DPDK, I try to remove the datapath_type > again which fails saying that datapath_type cannot be empty.
Can you show us the command you ran and the error message? > This is weird since the datapath_type is initally empty after creating > the bridge from scratch. > > I saw that there is also the option to set the datapath_type to system which > is apparently the default setting. > So my question is whether the type system is technically the same as no entry > for the datapath_type at all. > If so, wouldn’t it make sense to set the datapath_type as system after bridge > creation instead of leaving it empty. The empty string and "system" are synonyms, so there's no reason to prefer one or the other. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
