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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@gmail.com>,
	M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:38:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335361109.28015.42.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F97F929.5030707@citrix.com>

On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:16 +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Ian Campbell escribió:
> > On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:14 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:11 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >>> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn"):
> >>>> So for vifname="foo" it is a no-brainer to call the vif "foo" and the
> >>>> emulated tap device "foo-emu".
> >>>>
> >>>> But what about the case where no vifname is given, in that case vif is
> >>>> named "vif<DOM>.<DEV>". But what to call the tap? Previously I was
> >>>> changing the name from tap<DOM>.<DEV>  to xentap<DOM>.<DEV>  but perhaps
> >>>> now "vif<DOM>.<DEV>-emu" makes more sense/is more consistent?
> >>> I think either is fine.  While we're changing it it probably makes
> >>> sense to use "vif..." as indeed it is more consistent.
> >> OK, vifX.Y and vifX.Y-emu it is...
> >
> > This turned out to be a bit more complex than I was expecting, mostly
> > because the use of "vifname" with tap devices was already broken. I
> > think this does the right things with each type of device.
> >
> > Roger, not sure what knock on effect this has on your series. The main
> > thing is likely to be that you needn't find the vifname since you
> > actually want the standard name not the user supplied once on most
> > occasions.
> 
>  From what I see, I have to pass the name returned by
> libxl__device_nic_devname to the hotplug scripts, is that right?

AFAICT pretty much, yes.

Ian.



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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-16 19:03 [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn M A Young
2012-04-17 10:26 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-17 13:08   ` Roger Pau Monne
2012-04-18 18:25   ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-04-19  6:39     ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20  9:03       ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 10:38         ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-20 10:48           ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 10:55             ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-20 11:00               ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 11:04                 ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-20 13:21                   ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 15:26                     ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-04-20 15:38                       ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 16:34                         ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-04-25  9:59                   ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-25 10:11                     ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-25 10:14                       ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-25 12:58                         ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-25 13:16                           ` Roger Pau Monne
2012-04-25 13:38                             ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-05-11 14:53                           ` Ian Jackson
2012-05-11 23:53                             ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-12  7:29                               ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-12 22:00                                 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-12 22:30                                   ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-12 23:37                                     ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-13  0:39                                       ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 12:31                                         ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-21 12:51                                           ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 13:04                                             ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-21 13:16                                               ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-22 13:19                                                 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-23  2:22                                                   ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-23  9:37                                                     ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-23 13:04                                                       ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-23 14:54                                                         ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 12:24                                       ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 12:49                                         ` Ian Campbell

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