Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tap: Add optional parameters to up/down script

[Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 17:20 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-09-29 16:40, Thomas Jung wrote:
> > On 2011-09-29 16:11 jan kiszka wrote
> >> What kind of parameters would you want to pass? Something that tells VMs
> >> apart (which can be solved without these extensions) or more?
> >>
> >> Jan
> > 
> > In our Case:
> > 
> > We want to simulate an larger environment with multiple switches realized in
> > openvswitch.
> > Openvswitch requires a up- and downscript for each switch. So the idea was,
> > have a single and variable up- and downscript and feed it with parameters
> > (like switch to use, vlan id and so on) through the scriptparams. 
> 
> Sounds reasonable. A short note on the "why" in the description would
> have been nice.

Sure, I'll add the use case to the patch note.

> The patch has some style issues that should be addressed first
> (checkpatch will tell).

I wasn't aware that there was a checkpatch for qemu, now I do :)

I'll fix it and resend.

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Sasha.