monitor: Improve host_net_add (Jan Kiszka)

Fix the documentation of the host_net_add monitor command and allow the
user to pass no options at all. Moreover, inform the user on the
monitor terminal if a request failed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7201 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
index 7139f4f..ac89f87 100644
--- a/net.c
+++ b/net.c
@@ -2042,7 +2042,9 @@ void net_host_device_add(Monitor *mon, const char *device, const char *opts)
         monitor_printf(mon, "invalid host network device %s\n", device);
         return;
     }
-    net_client_init(device, opts);
+    if (net_client_init(device, opts ? : "") < 0) {
+        monitor_printf(mon, "adding host network device %s failed\n", device);
+    }
 }
 
 void net_host_device_remove(Monitor *mon, int vlan_id, const char *device)