net: Introduce NetClientInfo.check_peer_type()
commite287bf7bb15ffd3728c000d9c5b52460ea17d713
authorKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:34:28 +0000 (8 15:34 +0200)
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:05:24 +0000 (15 16:05 +0200)
tree6a54ec2dafb1e9e99e6dace054473be729c67321
parent4d1a525dfafe995a98bb486e702da09e31b68b9c
net: Introduce NetClientInfo.check_peer_type()

Some network backends (vhost-user and vhost-vdpa) work only with
specific devices. At startup, they second guess what the command line
option handling will do and error out if they think a non-virtio device
will attach to them.

This second guessing is not only ugly, it can lead to wrong error
messages ('-device floppy,netdev=foo' should complain about an unknown
property, not about the wrong kind of network device being attached) and
completely ignores hotplugging.

Add a callback where backends can check compatibility with a device when
it actually tries to attach, even on hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211008133442.141332-2-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c
include/net/net.h