1 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs b/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs
index 75547c1361..7f67ee5540 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs
@@ -8,39 +8,42 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 #
 
-uid=`id -u`
 gid=`id -g`
-if [ -n "$SUDO_UID" ]; then
-    uid=$SUDO_UID
-fi
 if [ -n "$SUDO_GID" ]; then
     gid=$SUDO_GID
 fi
 
 usage() {
-        echo "Usage: sudo $0 <uid> <gid> <num>"
-        echo "Where <uid> is the numeric user id the tap devices will be owned by"
+        echo "Usage: sudo $0 <gid> <num>"
         echo "Where <gid> is the numeric group id the tap devices will be owned by"
         echo "<num> is the number of tap devices to create (0 to remove all)"
         echo "For example:"
         echo "$ bitbake qemu-helper-native"
-        echo "$ sudo $0 $uid $gid 4"
+        echo "$ sudo $0 $gid 4"
         echo ""
         exit 1
 }
 
 # Allow passing 4 arguments for backward compatibility with warning
-if [ $# -eq 4 ]; then
-        echo "Warning: The <native-sysroot-basedir> parameter is no longer needed. Ignoring."
+if [ $# -gt 4 ]; then
+        echo "Error: Incorrect number of arguments"
+        usage
 fi
-if [ $# -lt 3 ] || [ $# -gt 4 ]; then
+if [ $# -gt 3 ]; then
+        echo "Warning: Ignoring the <native-sysroot-basedir> parameter. It is no longer needed."
+fi
+if [ $# -gt 2 ]; then
+        echo "Warning: Ignoring the <uid> parameter. It is no longer needed."
+        GID=$2
+        COUNT=$3
+elif [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
+        GID=$1
+        COUNT=$2
+else
         echo "Error: Incorrect number of arguments"
         usage
 fi
 
-TUID=$1
-GID=$2
-COUNT=$3
 
 # check if COUNT is a number and >= 0
 if ! [ $COUNT -ge 0 ]; then
@@ -78,10 +81,10 @@ if [ $COUNT -eq 0 ]; then
         exit 0
 fi
 
-echo "Creating $COUNT tap devices for UID: $TUID GID: $GID..."
+echo "Creating $COUNT tap devices for GID: $GID..."
 for ((index=0; index < $COUNT; index++)); do
         echo "Creating tap$index"
-        if ! ifup=`$RUNQEMU_IFUP $TUID $GID 2>&1`; then
+        if ! ifup=`$RUNQEMU_IFUP $GID 2>&1`; then
                 echo "Error bringing up interface: $ifup"
                 exit 1
         fi