Lucas Would you mind take a look at this patch?
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:57:10AM +0800, Sheng SL Liu wrote: >From: Liu Sheng <liush...@cn.ibm.com> > > When we perform the tap up operation, we should pass a 18Byte(16B for the name > and a 2B short int size for the flag 0x0001) ifreq struct to the ioctl > function. If we have a 4B int size flag instead, there is no problem on a x86 > machine as it's little-endian arch, the first 2B is [01 00] coincidently the > same as we have a short int size flag. but on a big-endian arch like power. > the > first 2B is [00 00], which is not correct for the operation. so just change > the > flag size to 2B. > >Signed-of-by: Liu Sheng <liush...@cn.ibm.com> >--- > client/virt/virt_utils.py | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/client/virt/virt_utils.py b/client/virt/virt_utils.py >index b1543ac..ffc16ef 100644 >--- a/client/virt/virt_utils.py >+++ b/client/virt/virt_utils.py >@@ -3351,7 +3351,7 @@ def bring_up_ifname(ifname): > @param ifname: Name of the interface > """ > ctrl_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM, 0) >- ifr = struct.pack("16si", ifname, IFF_UP) >+ ifr = struct.pack("16sh", ifname, IFF_UP) > try: > fcntl.ioctl(ctrl_sock, SIOCSIFFLAGS, ifr) > except IOError: >-- >1.7.4.1 > >_______________________________________________ >Autotest mailing list >Autotest@test.kernel.org >http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest -- Richard Yang Help you, Help me _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list Autotest@test.kernel.org http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest