[libvirt] [PATCH] Prevent initializing ebtables if disabled in qemu.conf

[Gerhard Stenzel]

Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote on 11/11/2009 02:34:17 AM:

> Also, hijacking this patch a bit to point out a few small issues I
noticed
> with the ebtables code (cc-ing Gerhard)

Apologies for any inconviences...

>
> The mac_filter value in qemu.conf isn't documented and isn't commented
out by
> default, unlike the other values in the conf file. I think it would be
good to
> match existing convention.

ok. I will fix this with a separate patch.

>
> Even though we check for the ebtables binary in configure, we don't
disable
> the driver if the binary doesn't exist (like it didn't on my rawhide
box).
> This causes it to print lots of error messages on libvirtd startup. It
would
> be nice to find a way to just VIR_DEBUG that the binary wasn't found and
skip
> initializing the driver.

ok. I will look into this.

> Thanks,
> Cole

Best regards,

Gerhard Stenzel, Linux on Cell/Hybrid Technologies, LTC
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