[libvirt] [PATCH] Allow no <source> for bridge interfaces

Tue Feb 3 14:27:31 UTC 2009

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:01:50AM -0800, john.levon at sun.com wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User john.levon at sun.com
> # Date 1233586907 28800
> # Node ID 68087e3caf39c74797720bde71a8df524ec036c8
> # Parent  aa50ca252e1419f30eb0e16204b48db42d92c785
> Allow no <source> for bridge interfaces
> 
> Historically, it was allowed to specify a bridge interface without a
> specific bridge source, in which case xend would choose one. Keep
> compatible with this behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon at sun.com>

ACK in principle, but this will allow the QEMU, OpenVZ & Xen XM drivers
to potentially de-reference NULL when using the resulting parsed config
since they assume that brname is compulsory for type=bridge.

Dainel
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