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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:57:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] eepro100: Add support for multiple individual
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, Dunc <dunc@lemonia.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Am 03.10.2010 15:20, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 01:47:45PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>>> It might be applied to the stable branches, too.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Stefan
>>>
>>> To me, this doesn't look like a stable branch material: this adds is a
>>> new feature, not a bugfix. Which guests benefit and how does
>>> one use the routing emulation?
>>
>>
>> The first mail in this thread should answer your question.
>>
>> It depends on your point of view whether better emulation
>> adds a new feature or fixes a bug:
>
> When in doubt, excercise caution. But in the end, I think it's your call:
> do you want this in 0.13 stable, too?


Yes. The patch is strictly limited to eepro100.c, and even there
its risk is limited to a highly specialized functionality.

On the other side we get a stable version 0.13 with increased
usability for a lot of people who use qemu with eepro100 to
emulate their routers.

Therefore it would be good to have this patch in 0.13 as well.

Regards,
Stefan