[Xen-devel] [PATCH] don't require ebtables in the host kernel

[Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The network-bridge script fails when setting a few sysctls
which are only available if ebtables is present in the host
kernel. Fix by ignoring the return value of the sysctl command.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: xen/tools/examples/network-bridge
===================================================================
--- xen/tools/examples/network-bridge   (revision 991)
+++ xen/tools/examples/network-bridge   (revision 992)
@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@

    # Don't create the bridge if it already exists.
    if ! brctl show | grep -q ${bridge} ; then
-       sysctl -w "net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables=0"
-       sysctl -w "net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables=0"
-       sysctl -w "net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables=0"
+       ! sysctl -w "net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables=0"
+       ! sysctl -w "net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables=0"
+       ! sysctl -w "net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables=0"
        brctl addbr ${bridge}
        brctl stp ${bridge} off
        brctl setfd ${bridge} 0


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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