ovs-dpctl: Mention use of ovs-appctl instead for netdev datapath.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@nicira.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in
index 84407f0b9..c1be05e13 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ ovs\-dpctl \- administer Open vSwitch datapaths
 The \fBovs\-dpctl\fR program can create, modify, and delete Open vSwitch
 datapaths.  A single machine may host any number of datapaths.
 .PP
+This program works only with datapaths that are implemented outside of
+\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR itself, such as the Linux and Windows kernel-based
+datapaths.  To manage datapaths that are integrated into
+\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR, such as the userspace (\fBnetdev\fR) datapath,
+use \fBovs\-appctl\fR(8) to invoke the \fBdpctl/*\fR commands, which
+are documented in \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR(8).
+.PP
 A newly created datapath is associated with only one network device, a
 virtual network device sometimes called the datapath's ``local port''.
 A newly created datapath is not, however, associated with any of the