Re: [PATCH] util: more verbose error when failing to create macvtap device

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On 18.03.2015 19:30, Laine Stump wrote:
> Investigation of a problem with creating passthrough macvtap devices
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185501) has shown that
> this slightly more verbose failure message is useful. In particular,
> the mac address can be used to determine the domain. You could also
> figure this out by looking at preceding messages in a debug log, but
> this gets it in a single place.
> ---
>  src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c b/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c
> index dd66955..5fd2097 100644
> --- a/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c
> +++ b/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c
> @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ virNetDevMacVLanCreate(const char *ifname,
>      unsigned int recvbuflen;
>      struct nl_msg *nl_msg;
>      struct nlattr *linkinfo, *info_data;
> +    char macstr[VIR_MAC_STRING_BUFLEN];
>  
>      if (virNetDevGetIndex(srcdev, &ifindex) < 0)
>          return -1;
> @@ -177,8 +178,9 @@ virNetDevMacVLanCreate(const char *ifname,
>  
>          default:
>              virReportSystemError(-err->error,
> -                                 _("error creating %s type of interface attach to %s"),
> -                                 type, srcdev);
> +                                 _("error creating %s interface %s@%s (%s)"),
> +                                 type, ifname, srcdev,
> +                                 virMacAddrFormat(macaddress, macstr));
>              goto cleanup;
>          }
>          break;
> 

ACK

Michal

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