-that attach to them. It modifies \fIconfig\fR and forces
-\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR to reload its configuration file.
+that attach to them.
+.PP
+The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies the
+\fBovsdb\-server\fR from which \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's configuration is
+retrieved. It should take the form \fBunix:\fIfile\fR, to connect to
+the Unix domain server socket named \fIfile\fR.