Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] tap-bsd: implement a FreeBSD only version of tap_open

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On 22/07/14 14:26, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> On 27/05/14 15:29, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 05:57:48PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>>> The current behaviour of tap_open for BSD systems differ greatly from
>>>> it's Linux counterpart. Since FreeBSD supports interface renaming and
>>>> tap device cloning by opening /dev/tap, implement a FreeBSD specific
>>>> version of tap_open that behaves like it's Linux counterpart.
>>>>
>>>> This is specially important for toolstacks that use Qemu (like Xen
>>>> libxl), in order to have a unified behaviour across suported
>>>> platforms.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
>>>> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
>>>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
>>>> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>>>> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  net/tap-bsd.c |   70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>  1 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>
>> I still don't see this committed to the repository, should I ping someone?
> 
> I was assuming that this patch would go via some other tree.  But if
> Stefan is OK I could pick it up and submit a pull request for both patch
> 1 and 2 of this series.

Would you do the backport of those three patches (one is already
committed as e02bc6) to the qemu-xen repo at the same time, or would you
like me to remind you about this in a month or so?

I would really like to have all this patches in Xen 4.5 if possible.

Thanks, Roger.