[ovs-discuss] Problem about bridge rename

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:13:25PM +0800, lv.erchun at zte.com.cn wrote:
> I have created a ovs bridge 'A'， and add the port eth0 to the bridge 'A', 
> now I want to rename the bridge to 'B', just like rename the linux bridge 
> ,use the command :
>         ip link set A name B
> 
> but ,for the ovs bridge ,the command "ip link set  name" doesn't work, 
> after execute the command, the result is as flow :
> 
> [root at hc_2c519_1_1_7 openvswitch-1.3.0]# brctl show
> bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
> B             0000.2ee16ac5654e       no                 eth0
> 
> [root at hc_2c519_1_1_7 /]# ovs-vsctl list-br
> A
> 
> the name of the bridge is 'A' also.
> 
> Is there any command or function can rename the ovs bridge ?

No.  No one has ever asked for one.

What's the use case?