From: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>,
"poky@lists.yoctoproject.org" <poky@lists.yoctoproject.org>,
"openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [poky] [PATCH] runqemu-ifupdown: Add support for ip tuntap
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 07:30:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR0102MB3136877E03064F5A6FB075DDFC51A@VI1PR0102MB3136.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5968fd664354f0ef7a8f41e93ddb6ff211016f0d.camel@linuxfoundation.org>
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@openembedded: I have proposed a patch to runqemu-ifup/down to use `ip tuntap` as an alternative to tunctl for setting up the tap interface. Now the question came up if tunctl could be fully dropped.
On 8 June 2023 22:18, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-06-08 at 15:07 +0200, Jörg Sommer via
> lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > The *ip* command supports the creation and destruction of TAP devices since
> > 2009 and might be more likely installed on systems then *tunctl*. Therefore
> > it should be tried to setup or teardown the TAP interface with *ip* before
> > falling back to *tunctl*.
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=580fbd88f75cc9eea0d28a48c025b090eb9419a7
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>
> > ---
> > scripts/runqemu-ifdown | 14 ++++++++------
> > scripts/runqemu-ifup | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
> > 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> This does make me wonder if we could just drop tunctl now?
I think so. But do all systems support ip, now? If so, the part for ifconfig could be dropped.
> We originally had this as ifconfig couldn't do what we needed and ip
> was comparatively rare on systems. Things have changed and moved on!
>
> Did the gen-tap-devs script also need updating?
Yeah, you're right. I forgot about it.
> Also, this patch does need to go to the openembedded-core list as it is
> changing that repository which poky is built from.
Thanks for the pointing.
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2023-06-08 13:07 [PATCH] runqemu-ifupdown: Add support for ip tuntap Jörg Sommer
2023-06-08 20:18 ` [poky] " Richard Purdie
2023-06-09 7:30 ` Jörg Sommer [this message]
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