From: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 17:30:17 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: ovs-brcompatd: Document bug.
X-Git-Tag: v1.2.0~386
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a16a9d0392af597353048419ef614ca2d5ca0afd;p=sliver-openvswitch.git

ovs-brcompatd: Document bug.

Reported-by: Gregor Schaffrath <grsch@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
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diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ba30f5000..1aa1cb3c1 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ DK Moon                 dkmoon@nicira.com
 Gaetano Catalli         gaetano.catalli@gmail.com
 Ghanem Bahri            bahri.ghanem@gmail.com
 Giuseppe de Candia      giuseppe.decandia@gmail.com
+Gregor Schaffrath       grsch@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de
 Hassan Khan             hassan.khan@seecs.edu.pk
 Hector Oron             hector.oron@gmail.com
 Henrik Amren            henrik@nicira.com
diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in b/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in
index 0cce84d7a..2ce164c3a 100644
--- a/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in
+++ b/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ pruned.  The default prune timeout is 5 seconds.
 .so lib/common.man
 .so lib/leak-checker.man
 .
+.SH BUGS
+.
+\fBovs\-brcompatd\fR requires the bridges that it manages to initially
+have no ports listed in their database records when it starts up.
+Otherwise, it may add duplicate ports to bridges.
+.
 .SH NOTES
 \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR requires the \fBbrcompat_mod.ko\fR kernel module to be
 loaded.