Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] Allow brAddTap to create a tap device that is down

2011-02-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:53:31AM -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > An upcoming patch has a use for a tap device to be created that > doesn't need to be actually put into the "up" state, and keeping it > "down" keeps the output of ifconfig from being unnecessarily cluttered > (ifconfig won't show down i

[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] Allow brAddTap to create a tap device that is down

2011-02-09 Thread Laine Stump
An upcoming patch has a use for a tap device to be created that doesn't need to be actually put into the "up" state, and keeping it "down" keeps the output of ifconfig from being unnecessarily cluttered (ifconfig won't show down interfaces unless you add "-a"). bridge.[ch]: add "up" as an arg to b