ovs-vswitchd: Preserve datapath ports across graceful shutdown.

Until now, asking ovs-vswitchd to shut down gracefully, e.g. with
"ovs-appctl exit", would cause it to first remove all the ports from
kernel-based datapaths.  This has the unfortunate side effect that IP
addresses on any removed "internal" ports are lost, even if the ports are
added again when ovs-vswitchd is restarted.  This is long-standing
behavior, but it only became important when the OVS control scripts were
changed to try to do graceful shutdown first instead of using a signal.

This commit changes graceful shutdown so that it leaves ports in the
datapath, fixing the problem.

Fixes: 9b5422a98f8 (ovs-lib: Try to call exit before killing.)
Reported-by: Edgar Cantu <eocantu@us.ibm.com>
Reported-at: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-January/020024.html
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <guru@ovn.org>

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