From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: markmc@redhat.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
rmarwah@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
chouteau@adacore.com, afaerber@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Add interface to bridge when SIOCBRADDIF isn't available
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:20:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500E84E5.7070107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342099471-4993-1-git-send-email-coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Il 12/07/2012 15:24, Corey Bryant ha scritto:
> The bridge helper uses the SIOCBRADDIF ioctl to add an inteface to
> a bridge. SIOCBRADDIF is not available on old Linux versions. This
> patch adds support to use the SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl with BRCTL_ADD_IF
> if SIOCBRADDIF is not available.
>
> Reported-by: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> qemu-bridge-helper.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-bridge-helper.c b/qemu-bridge-helper.c
> index aec5008..652eec9 100644
> --- a/qemu-bridge-helper.c
> +++ b/qemu-bridge-helper.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
>
> #include <linux/sockios.h>
>
> +#ifndef SIOCBRADDIF
> +#include <linux/if_bridge.h>
> +#endif
> +
> #include "qemu-queue.h"
>
> #include "net/tap-linux.h"
> @@ -221,6 +225,10 @@ static int drop_privileges(void)
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> struct ifreq ifr;
> +#ifndef SIOCBRADDIF
> + unsigned long ifargs[4];
> +#endif
> + int ifindex;
> int fd, ctlfd, unixfd = -1;
> int use_vnet = 0;
> int mtu;
> @@ -361,9 +369,19 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>
> /* add the interface to the bridge */
> prep_ifreq(&ifr, bridge);
> - ifr.ifr_ifindex = if_nametoindex(iface);
> -
> - if (ioctl(ctlfd, SIOCBRADDIF, &ifr) == -1) {
> + ifindex = if_nametoindex(iface);
> +#ifndef SIOCBRADDIF
> + ifargs[0] = BRCTL_ADD_IF;
> + ifargs[1] = ifindex;
> + ifargs[2] = 0;
> + ifargs[3] = 0;
> + ifr.ifr_data = (void *)ifargs;
> + ret = ioctl(ctlfd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE, &ifr);
> +#else
> + ifr.ifr_ifindex = ifindex;
> + ret = ioctl(ctlfd, SIOCBRADDIF, &ifr);
> +#endif
> + if (ret == -1) {
> fprintf(stderr, "failed to add interface `%s' to bridge `%s': %s\n",
> iface, bridge, strerror(errno));
> ret = EXIT_FAILURE;
>
Ping? (Adding Stefan to the list).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-24 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-12 13:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Add interface to bridge when SIOCBRADDIF isn't available Corey Bryant
2012-07-13 15:16 ` Fabien Chouteau
2012-07-24 11:20 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-07-24 16:03 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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