Re: [Xen-devel] backport requests for 4.x-testing

[Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roderick Colenbrander writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] backport requests for 
> 4.x-testing"):
>> I would like to nominate 2 patches to be backported to Xen 4.1:
>> 24458 (libxl: print out vifname in create dryrun.)
>> 24459 (libxl: write vifname in xenstore if set.)
>
> I have backported 24458.  24459 looks fine to be for a backport but
> doesn't apply cleanly to 4.1.  Would you care to provide a backported
> version ?

Sorry, just feel bored and here is the backport version which I not
sure whether is it right :p  Mind to check?  Thanks.



libxl: write vifname in xenstore if set.

Simple fix to enable user to specify vif names.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell.com>
xen-unstable changeset: 24459:caf9753d4cc1
Backport-requested-by: Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k@xxxxxxxxx>


diff -urN a/tools/libxl/libxl.c b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c       2012-03-14 00:49:03.000000000 +0800
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c       2012-03-14 01:15:27.000000000 +0800
@@ -1229,6 +1229,10 @@
     flexarray_append(back, libxl__sprintf(&gc, "%d", 1));
     flexarray_append(back, "script");
     flexarray_append(back, nic->script);
+    if (nic->ifname) {
+       flexarray_append(back, "vifname");
+       flexarray_append(back, nic->ifname);
+    }
     flexarray_append(back, "mac");
     flexarray_append(back, libxl__sprintf(&gc, "%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x",
                                                  nic->mac[0],
nic->mac[1], nic->mac[2],



>
> Thanks,
> Ian.

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon

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