Re: [PATCH 3/4] slirp: Add mfr-id to -netdev options

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Peter Delevoryas <pdel@fb.com> writes:

> On Jun 20, 2022, at 12:16 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com<mailto:armbru@redhat.com>> wrote:

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>> Documentation is rather terse.  It basically provides a bunch of
>> keywords you can throw at the search engine of your choice.  Can we cut
>> out that middle man and point straight to a suitable resource?
>
> Erg, yeah, sorry about that, you’re right, it would probably be more useful
> to point to the NC-SI specification directly:
>
> https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0222_1.0.0.pdf
>
> Note: there have been some newer revisions to the specification lately, and the
> full list of spec versions is here:
>
> https://www.dmtf.org/dsp/DSP0222
>
> Get Version ID and the OEM Vendor extension are both specified in 1.0.0, so I
> think it should be ok to link to 1.0.0.
>
> I’m not totally sure if I should directly link to the actual URL, but I’ll
> definitely say: “This is defined in DMTF NC-SI 1.0.0” or something like that.

Works for me with the full name of the spec: "DMTF Network Controller
Sideband Interface (NC-SI) Specification, version 1.0.0".  You can omit
the version if there are no earlier ones.

> Unless URL’s in the code would be preferred. Theoretically, the DMTF
> spec URL should be pretty long-lasting.

Feel free to add URL, too.