runqemu/qemu-helper: Drop tunctl

ip tuntap provides the functionality that we obtained from tunctl. We only
needed tunctl when ifconfig was more available than ip. That isn't the case
now so we can drop tunctl and all the hoops we need to jump through to build
and provide it.

(From OE-Core rev: 2abfbca690ff00cb58ce08a65cde006578ee3de9)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-ifup b/scripts/runqemu-ifup
index 5fdcddeeda..237bf2a07b 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-ifup
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-ifup
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # QEMU network interface configuration script. This utility needs to
-# be run as root, and will use the tunctl binary from a native sysroot.
-# Note: many Linux distros these days still use an older version of
-# tunctl which does not support the group permissions option, hence
-# the need to use build system's version.
+# be run as root, and will use the ip utility
 #
 # If you find yourself calling this script a lot, you can add the
 # the following to your /etc/sudoers file to be able to run this
@@ -39,7 +36,6 @@ fi
 
 USERID="-u $1"
 GROUP="-g $2"
-STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE=$3
 
 if taps=$(ip tuntap list 2>/dev/null); then
         tap_no=$(( $(echo "$taps" |sort -r |sed 's/^tap//; s/:.*//; q') + 1 ))
@@ -47,24 +43,8 @@ if taps=$(ip tuntap list 2>/dev/null); then
 fi
 
 if [ -z $TAP ]; then
-        TUNCTL=$STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE/tunctl
-        if [ ! -x "$TUNCTL" ]; then
-                echo "Error: Unable to find tunctl binary in '$STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE', please bitbake qemu-helper-native"
-                exit 1
-        fi
-
-        TAP=`$TUNCTL -b $GROUP 2>&1`
-        STATUS=$?
-        if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
-        # If tunctl -g fails, try using tunctl -u, for older host kernels
-        # which do not support the TUNSETGROUP ioctl
-                TAP=`$TUNCTL -b $USERID 2>&1`
-                STATUS=$?
-                if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
-                        echo "tunctl failed:"
-                        exit 1
-                fi
-        fi
+        echo "Error: Unable to find a tap device to use"
+        exit 1
 fi
 
 IFCONFIG=`which ip 2> /dev/null`