Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:05:39 +0200 | From | Eduardo Otubo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2] hv_set_ifconfig.sh double check before setting ip |
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:56:44PM +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org] > > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2017 11:16 AM > > To: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com> > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; Haiyang > > Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger > > <sthemmin@microsoft.com>; David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > > Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] hv_set_ifconfig.sh double check before setting ip > > > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:01:21 +0200 > > Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > v2: The script is now a little bit safer so it doesn't conflicts with > > > network daemon trying to set configurations at the same time. > > > > > > This patch fixes the behavior of the hv_set_ifconfig script when > > setting > > > the interface ip. Sometimes the interface has already been configured > > by > > > network daemon, in this case hv_set_ifconfig causes "RTNETLINK: file > > > exists error"; in order to avoid this error this patch makes sure > > double > > > checks the interface before trying anything. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com> > > > > Adding new dependency on systemd is not going to make this script > > even less useful. I wonder why the script still exists at all? Most of > > the > > Linux distro's can already setup HV networking without it. > >
Also, this script is meant to run only on RHEL guests, as written on the header of this very same file.
-- Eduardo Otubo Senior Software Engineer @ RedHat
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