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For the full history behind this patch, look at the following: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-7036 commit v10.7.0-101-ga37bd2a15b commit v10.8.0-rc2-8-gbcd5ae4e73 Summary: original problem was unexpected failure of update-device when the user hadn't changed anything other than online status of the guest NIC (which should always be allowed). The first commit "fixed" this by avoiding the allocation of a new ActualNetDef (i.e. creating a new networkport) for *all* network device updates (because that was inappropriately changing which ethernet physdev should be used for a macvtap connection, which by design can't be handled in an update-device). But this commit caused a regression for update-device of bridge-based network devices (because some the updates of certain attributes *do* require the ActualNetDef be re-allocated), so... The 2nd commit narrowed the list of network types that get the "don't allocate new ActualNetDef" treatment (so that only interfaces connected to a network that uses a pool of ethernet VFs *being used in passthrough mode* qualify). But then it was pointed out that this re-broke simple updates of devices that used a direct/macvtap network in "bridge" mode (because it's possible to list multiple physdevs to use for bridge mode, in which case the network driver attempts to "load balance" (and so a new allocation might have a different ethernet physdev which, again, can't be supported in a device-update). So this (single line of code) patch *widens* the list of network types that don't allocate a new ActualNetDef to also include the other direct (macvtap) modes, e.g. bridge, private, etc. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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