Laszlo (Laca) Peter ??:
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:39 +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
>> Network team changed the dladm output mode, and virt-manager is using
>> the output to get network card name and mac address, so we have to
>> changed accordingly.
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> Is there any commitment for the stability of the output of dladm?
Yes, it's a stable output, they just finished the change to make it stable.
> It's probably not a good idea to parse output intended for humans.
> Is there a better interface you can use or can you ask the Network
> team to add an option for machine-readable output?
I have tried, but by now there is no other way.
Xen team is working out a HAL/DBus prototype, and is going to integrate
into ON, after that we can remove this patch and use that prototype. So
this should be a temporary patch.
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