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From: David Edmondson <dme@sun.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-3.1-testing] xend: fix
	server/netif.py so that it respects type=None.
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:31:10 +0100
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:33:01PM +0100, David Edmondson wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:00:31PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > > Perhaps slightly gross, but could we perhaps:
> > 
> > Yes, "blech".
> > 
> > It seems that at the place where 'None' is interpreted to mean
> > 'netfront' we need to use xoptions.netback_type rather than
> > 'netfront'.
> 
> That would be the kernel...  Can't your code which looks at xenstore
> for the type field just treat the absence of it as 'SUNW_mac' or
> whatever default value you want to use ?

Yes, that's what we'll probably do.

Will you remove the netback_type default stuff?