Change VF propagate_uplink_status default value to True

Issue

• We have noticed that the link-state behaviour on the SR-IOV VFs is different in OSP 16 compared to OSP 13.

• In OSP 16, in order to set the VFs to link-state auto when we start a VM, we have had to add the following to ml2_conf.ini on the controllers:

[ml2]
extension_drivers = uplink_status_propagation

• Then, when we create the port, we need to use --enable-uplink-status-propagation

• Is there a way to set the default value of propagate_uplink_status to True. Also, this seems to be the default behaviour in OSP 13.

• For instance, the link-state is looks like this:

# ip link show dev eth2
7: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:02:c9:e6:01:12 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
vf 0 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state disable
vf 1 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking on, link-state disable
vf 2 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state disable
vf 3 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state disable
vf 4 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state disable
vf 5 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state disable

instead of this:

# ip link show dev eth2
7: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:02:c9:e6:01:12 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
vf 0 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state auto
vf 1 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking on, link-state auto
vf 2 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state auto
vf 3 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state auto
vf 4 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state auto
vf 5 MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00, vlan 4095, spoof checking off, link-state auto