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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 17:17:39 +0100
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:09:55PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Not clear there's a perfect solution that doesn't involve modifying the
> Solaris PV netback to interpret None as SunW_mac (or whatever it was).
> That's probably the nicest solution of all, and get rid of netback_type
> default altogether. But that may be unacceptable due to backward compat
> issues with existing Solaris PV netback?

I don't believe that there are any backwards compatibility issues
here. The people using the current OpenSolaris bits are versed in
dealing with change.