On 06/17/2010 06:25 AM, Stefan Berger wrote: > This patch works around a recent extension of the netlink driver I > had made use of when building the netlink messages. Unfortunately > older kernels don't accept IFLA_IFNAME + name of interface as a > replacement for the interface's index, so this patch now gets the > interface index ifindex if it's not provided (ifindex <= 0). > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb(a)us.ibm.com&gt; > > --- > src/util/macvtap.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > Index: libvirt-acl/src/util/macvtap.c > =================================================================== > --- libvirt-acl.orig/src/util/macvtap.c > +++ libvirt-acl/src/util/macvtap.c > @@ -905,6 +905,9 @@ ifaceGetNthParent(int ifindex, const cha > > *nth = 0; > > + if (ifindex <= 0 && ifaceGetIndex(true, ifname, &ifindex) != 0) > + return 1; > + > while (!end && i <= nthParent) { > rc = link_dump(true, ifname, ifindex, tb, &recvbuf); > if (rc) > ACK