net/dump: Provide the dumping facility as a net-filter

Use the net-filter infrastructure to provide the dumping
functions for netdev devices, too.

Reviewed-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index dffaf09a44..f5f7c3f7c4 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2769,7 +2769,12 @@ static bool object_create_initial(const char *type)
         return false;
     }
 
-    if (g_str_equal(type, "filter-buffer")) {
+    /*
+     * return false for concrete netfilters since
+     * they depend on netdevs already existing
+     */
+    if (g_str_equal(type, "filter-buffer") ||
+        g_str_equal(type, "filter-dump")) {
         return false;
     }