From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: otubo@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, jgross@suse.com,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, vkuznets@redhat.com,
mgamal@redhat.com, cavery@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: enable device after manual module load
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:17:22 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180108.141722.1413694733176935221.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180105084216.21719-1-otubo@redhat.com>
From: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 09:42:16 +0100
> When loading the module after unloading it, the network interface would
> not be enabled and thus wouldn't have a backend counterpart and unable
> to be used by the guest.
>
> The guest would face errors like:
>
> [root@guest ~]# ethtool -i eth0
> Cannot get driver information: No such device
>
> [root@guest ~]# ifconfig eth0
> eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>
> This patch initializes the state of the netfront device whenever it is
> loaded manually, this state would communicate the netback to create its
> device and establish the connection between them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com>
Applied, thank you.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-08 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-05 8:42 [PATCH] xen-netfront: enable device after manual module load Eduardo Otubo
2018-01-08 15:03 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2018-01-08 19:17 ` David Miller [this message]
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