commit 9d3e12e881bc97bc32ac75d146b5347136f29ca1
author Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Tue Oct 13 12:40:01 2015 +0200
committer Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Tue Oct 27 10:30:35 2015 +0800
tree e3a61b854cb71d10b2cdf99b5380adc8c291ff53
parent 75310e3486ab205d870560b75bbcaba72acb26d7

net/dump: Provide the dumping facility as a net-filter

Use the net-filter infrastructure to provide the dumping
functions for netdev devices, too.

Reviewed-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

vl.c

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index dffaf09..f5f7c3f 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2769,7 +2769,12 @@
         return false;
     }
 
-    if (g_str_equal(type, "filter-buffer")) {
+    /*
+     * return false for concrete netfilters since
+     * they depend on netdevs already existing
+     */
+    if (g_str_equal(type, "filter-buffer") ||
+        g_str_equal(type, "filter-dump")) {
         return false;
     }