[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 15/17] libxl: allow usage of char devices as block backends

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On FreeBSD ZVOLs/disks/partitions are char devices, so libxl must
allow it's usage.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/libxl/libxl_device.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c
index fa99f77..7dd359c 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c
@@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ int libxl__device_disk_set_backend(libxl__gc *gc, 
libxl_device_disk *disk) {
             return ERROR_INVAL;
         }
         if (!S_ISBLK(a.stab.st_mode) &
-            !S_ISREG(a.stab.st_mode)) {
+            !S_ISREG(a.stab.st_mode) &
+            !S_ISCHR(a.stab.st_mode)) {
             LOG(ERROR, "Disk vdev=%s phys path is not a block dev or file: %s",
                        disk->vdev, disk->pdev_path);
             return ERROR_INVAL;
-- 
1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26)


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