Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] linux-user: manage SOCK_PACKET socket type

[Peter Maydell]

On 28 October 2015 at 19:12, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is obsolete, but if we want to use dhcp with some distros (like debian
> ppc 8.2 jessie), we need it.
>
> At the bind level, we are not able to know the socket type so we try to
> guess it by analyzing the name. We manage only the case "ethX",
> "ethX" in spk_device is similar to set htons(0x6574) in sll_protocol in the
> normal case, and as this protocol does not exist, it's ok.

This cover letter is underselling the patchset, which now handles
more than just "ethX" :-)

I had a couple of minor comments but it looks pretty good overall.

thanks
-- PMM