[libvirt] [PATCH] network: bridge: Don't start network if it collides with host routing

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/21/2010 09:28 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> Any interest in doing this with netlink instead? (I've got this "thing" 
> >> against parsing text files to get information if it can be retrieved via 
> >> a nice clean API). If so, I think I can whip up the equivalent code with 
> >> libnl calls, but probably not until later in the afternoon.
> >>
> >> If I'm the only one who feels uneasy about parsing stuff out of /proc, 
> >> then I'm fine with that too.
> >>
> > 
> > My feeling is it depends on what else libnl buys us. A library
> > dependency for a single safety check doesn't seem worth it. If we use
> > the lib, we definitely don't want it to be optional, as debugging
> > network issues in the future shouldn't require asking 'is libvirt
> > compiled against libnl'.
> 
> Stefan just posted a patch series that would also add a dependency on
> libnl for vepa; as long as we are using the library, we might as well
> use it for more than one thing.

We already depend on it via netcf in any case.


Daniel
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