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ovs: wait for the link to be ready before activating

Fernando Fernández Mancera requested to merge ff/wait_udev_ovs into main

Summary

Block the activation of ovs-interface until udev is done and therefore the link is ready.

Resolves: RHEL-49796

Purpose

Fix a race condition happening in OVS interfaces with cloned-mac-address set when udev rule enabling MACAddressPolicy=persistent is in place.

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Edited by Fernando Fernández Mancera

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