+
+/* Some IDL users should only write to write-only columns. Furthermore,
+ * writing to a column which is not write-only can cause serious performance
+ * degradations for these users. This function causes 'idl' to reject writes
+ * to columns which are not marked write only using ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(). */
+void
+ovsdb_idl_verify_write_only(struct ovsdb_idl *idl)
+{
+ idl->verify_write_only = true;
+}